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Scott Tinker

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

how's that working yeah we'll eventually come back there you know yeah but but getting back uh kind of this dialogue yeah energy economies and that gives you the wherewithal to invest in cleaning up environments and we see that in all sorts of different right and that that final 50 50 50 50 that's the bottom half of the world well no oh okay yeah it's it's uh

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

So you say, okay, here we are with this continuum, and there's the 50-50. And I ask myself the question, why are we considering light bulbs and mud huds, which I've done, electrified? The world organizations say, well, that's electrified. No, no, that's a light bulb and a mud hud. Right. And it's more than they had. They can read at night. Yeah, yeah. Et cetera, it's a start.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

So you say, okay, here we are with this continuum, and there's the 50-50. And I ask myself the question, why are we considering light bulbs and mud huds, which I've done, electrified? The world organizations say, well, that's electrified. No, no, that's a light bulb and a mud hud. Right. And it's more than they had. They can read at night. Yeah, yeah. Et cetera, it's a start.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

So you say, okay, here we are with this continuum, and there's the 50-50. And I ask myself the question, why are we considering light bulbs and mud huds, which I've done, electrified? The world organizations say, well, that's electrified. No, no, that's a light bulb and a mud hud. Right. And it's more than they had. They can read at night. Yeah, yeah. Et cetera, it's a start.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

If we had a light bulb in a mud hut here, we'd call it a brownout, Jordan. We would be in a brownout situation. We'd be one lamp. So what would it take really to lift seven billion people in various stages to 50 megawatts, hours, and 50,000 bucks? So I ran the numbers. And then by when? So it turns out the world today, all in, let's call it primary energy consumption.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

If we had a light bulb in a mud hut here, we'd call it a brownout, Jordan. We would be in a brownout situation. We'd be one lamp. So what would it take really to lift seven billion people in various stages to 50 megawatts, hours, and 50,000 bucks? So I ran the numbers. And then by when? So it turns out the world today, all in, let's call it primary energy consumption.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

If we had a light bulb in a mud hut here, we'd call it a brownout, Jordan. We would be in a brownout situation. We'd be one lamp. So what would it take really to lift seven billion people in various stages to 50 megawatts, hours, and 50,000 bucks? So I ran the numbers. And then by when? So it turns out the world today, all in, let's call it primary energy consumption.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

And these are the fundamental inputs we've been talking about. Biomass, coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, big dams, and waves and tides, potentially all other, this little teeny thing today. So those are the, these are what come into the system. I didn't say electricity. You have to make electricity. Electricity is not primary energy. We make it.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

And these are the fundamental inputs we've been talking about. Biomass, coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, big dams, and waves and tides, potentially all other, this little teeny thing today. So those are the, these are what come into the system. I didn't say electricity. You have to make electricity. Electricity is not primary energy. We make it.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

And these are the fundamental inputs we've been talking about. Biomass, coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, big dams, and waves and tides, potentially all other, this little teeny thing today. So those are the, these are what come into the system. I didn't say electricity. You have to make electricity. Electricity is not primary energy. We make it.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

So the things that make electricity. If you look across the world today, all in, we consume about 620 exajoules of energy. That means nothing to anybody. What's an exajoule? It's a big number, okay? 620 exajoules powers 8.3 billion people to varying levels. just take it as 620 something, some unit, to lift everybody up to 50-50 would take almost three times that. Almost 1800 exajoules.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

So the things that make electricity. If you look across the world today, all in, we consume about 620 exajoules of energy. That means nothing to anybody. What's an exajoule? It's a big number, okay? 620 exajoules powers 8.3 billion people to varying levels. just take it as 620 something, some unit, to lift everybody up to 50-50 would take almost three times that. Almost 1800 exajoules.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

So the things that make electricity. If you look across the world today, all in, we consume about 620 exajoules of energy. That means nothing to anybody. What's an exajoule? It's a big number, okay? 620 exajoules powers 8.3 billion people to varying levels. just take it as 620 something, some unit, to lift everybody up to 50-50 would take almost three times that. Almost 1800 exajoules.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

For the oil and gas people, that's about 1,800 trillion cubic feet of gas a year, equivalent. Other units of energy measurement that are used. Tripling, though. So 3x. Now, that's not scarcity. That's not saying, hey, we're running out. Everybody's got to conserve. You can only have one pair of shoes and two pair of clothing. No, no, that's saying...

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

For the oil and gas people, that's about 1,800 trillion cubic feet of gas a year, equivalent. Other units of energy measurement that are used. Tripling, though. So 3x. Now, that's not scarcity. That's not saying, hey, we're running out. Everybody's got to conserve. You can only have one pair of shoes and two pair of clothing. No, no, that's saying...

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

For the oil and gas people, that's about 1,800 trillion cubic feet of gas a year, equivalent. Other units of energy measurement that are used. Tripling, though. So 3x. Now, that's not scarcity. That's not saying, hey, we're running out. Everybody's got to conserve. You can only have one pair of shoes and two pair of clothing. No, no, that's saying...

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

We've got to find out how to make triple our energy, our primary energy in the world. Is it there? Some worry about that. Well, yes. The answer is there's a lot of energy in the world. It's in a variety of forms. But the density, here's where density comes back in. If I'm going to make another 1200 exodules or up to 1800, I've got to use the densest forms of energy.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

We've got to find out how to make triple our energy, our primary energy in the world. Is it there? Some worry about that. Well, yes. The answer is there's a lot of energy in the world. It's in a variety of forms. But the density, here's where density comes back in. If I'm going to make another 1200 exodules or up to 1800, I've got to use the densest forms of energy.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

We've got to find out how to make triple our energy, our primary energy in the world. Is it there? Some worry about that. Well, yes. The answer is there's a lot of energy in the world. It's in a variety of forms. But the density, here's where density comes back in. If I'm going to make another 1200 exodules or up to 1800, I've got to use the densest forms of energy.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
551. An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis | Scott Tinker

That little uranium pellet, uranium oxides, thorium, another radioactive element. These are both fission inputs. And in the next period of time, we're not that far away from fusion working, not commercial yet, but fusion, that's hydrogen. It's a pretty common thing.