Scott Tinker
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852 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
Scott Tinker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Less coal now than most of the modern world.
Oil is actually percentage-wise decreasing.
Natural gas and nuclear are increasing in the modern world, and solar and wind.
And I'm fine with those, by the way.
I'm not anti-solar and wind.
A diverse portfolio is a good thing.
No.
You simply can't... Two reasons, two big reasons.
A lot of reasons.
Two big ones.
You can't mine enough...
to create the collection systems of solar panels and wind turbines, which wear out in 15 to 20 years, and so you have to keep building them, because we don't recycle them.
You just can't mine enough to do that, because the sun and the wind are so low density, it takes a tremendous amount to collect the energy we need to power the modern world.
So, Václav Smil is a very bright energy guy out of Canada, and he created, when I'm talking about density, before I was talking about
you know, per unit weight, how much energy in an ounce or a pound of something.
You can't weigh the sun and the wind.
So he came up with something called surface power density, which is area, watts per meter squared.
So the wind has a very low surface power density, very low.
It takes a lot of area to collect energy.
energy from the wind.
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