Scott Tinker
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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And then we killed whales to get their oils for lighting our homes.
And then coal came along.
1805, the first coal train in Wales, actually, commercial coal-powered train.
You burn coal, which nature took carbon, plants, and made it really dense for us.
So you get a lot of energy when you burn that coal, heat,
Boil water, make steam, turn a turbine, run a generator, light.
And that changed the modern world.
Then oil, hydrocarbons, carbon and hydrogen, not just carbon and coal, even denser.
Refine that, put it in our vehicles.
That's why we can travel so far.
The horse and the oxen had to eat a lot of hay.
a lot of hay to go 500 miles.
A good tank of gas will get you that far.
And then methane, natural gas came along, CH4, more hydrogen than carbon.
It'll sound weird, but methane is denser than oil by weight.
So it's a much denser form of energy, more hydrogen in it.
And then finally uranium and thorium.
nuclear so this this energy density transition has been happening naturally for a couple of centuries now and that's where energy in the world is headed okay it's uh it's tough to negotiate with physics and we try all the time politically but but physics eventually wins and so does economics so that's this if there's a transition it's toward that okay now globally you asked
the wealthy world, let's just break the world into three parts, the emerging economies, about half of the world, 4 billion people, the developing economies, another 3 billion, and then the lucky one plus billion of us who were born, won the lottery, right?
And so we have moved through, our mix of energy has changed from dominated by coal to
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