Scott Tinker

The battery is less dense than dung on a per unit weight basis. A battery is a lot less dense than dung. Yes, on a weight basis. That's why it takes a thousand pounds of battery to drive a car. A Tesla S is a thousand pound battery pack, 7,000 batteries the size of your cell phone and that under the whole floor bed. It just, it has physics limits, okay.

The battery is less dense than dung on a per unit weight basis. A battery is a lot less dense than dung. Yes, on a weight basis. That's why it takes a thousand pounds of battery to drive a car. A Tesla S is a thousand pound battery pack, 7,000 batteries the size of your cell phone and that under the whole floor bed. It just, it has physics limits, okay.

The battery is less dense than dung on a per unit weight basis. A battery is a lot less dense than dung. Yes, on a weight basis. That's why it takes a thousand pounds of battery to drive a car. A Tesla S is a thousand pound battery pack, 7,000 batteries the size of your cell phone and that under the whole floor bed. It just, it has physics limits, okay.

So as we, but let's do electrons and molecules. We need molecules for a lot of useful things and burning them arguably is maybe not the best use if we had perfect other options for them now. I can electrify some things, vehicles, small cars, bigger cars. I can do hybrids for bigger buses. But because there's so much weight in that battery, when I fly here on an airplane...

So as we, but let's do electrons and molecules. We need molecules for a lot of useful things and burning them arguably is maybe not the best use if we had perfect other options for them now. I can electrify some things, vehicles, small cars, bigger cars. I can do hybrids for bigger buses. But because there's so much weight in that battery, when I fly here on an airplane...

So as we, but let's do electrons and molecules. We need molecules for a lot of useful things and burning them arguably is maybe not the best use if we had perfect other options for them now. I can electrify some things, vehicles, small cars, bigger cars. I can do hybrids for bigger buses. But because there's so much weight in that battery, when I fly here on an airplane...

The whole airplane would be a battery. Right, right, right. To get me to go.

The whole airplane would be a battery. Right, right, right. To get me to go.

The whole airplane would be a battery. Right, right, right. To get me to go.

Yeah, it's kind of cool. It's an electric plane, but it's doing nothing else. Right, right, right. And so go up that density curve again. I'm putting jet fuel, diesel, in those wings. Really dense energy. And that allows me to haul weight in humans and luggage and freight and other things. So you have to think about the end uses of energy.

Yeah, it's kind of cool. It's an electric plane, but it's doing nothing else. Right, right, right. And so go up that density curve again. I'm putting jet fuel, diesel, in those wings. Really dense energy. And that allows me to haul weight in humans and luggage and freight and other things. So you have to think about the end uses of energy.

Yeah, it's kind of cool. It's an electric plane, but it's doing nothing else. Right, right, right. And so go up that density curve again. I'm putting jet fuel, diesel, in those wings. Really dense energy. And that allows me to haul weight in humans and luggage and freight and other things. So you have to think about the end uses of energy.

It's not crazy to burn molecules when they're the only thing that will do that job. The rockets that Elon Musk launches and takes to space aren't flying on batteries. Those are on LNG, and they're actually on natural gas, but hydrogen too. So molecules have a great use for some things. natural gas and oil, electrons have a great use for other things.

It's not crazy to burn molecules when they're the only thing that will do that job. The rockets that Elon Musk launches and takes to space aren't flying on batteries. Those are on LNG, and they're actually on natural gas, but hydrogen too. So molecules have a great use for some things. natural gas and oil, electrons have a great use for other things.

It's not crazy to burn molecules when they're the only thing that will do that job. The rockets that Elon Musk launches and takes to space aren't flying on batteries. Those are on LNG, and they're actually on natural gas, but hydrogen too. So molecules have a great use for some things. natural gas and oil, electrons have a great use for other things.

We should try to get to the point where we're using the right form of energy to do the right job. Nuclear makes electricity.

We should try to get to the point where we're using the right form of energy to do the right job. Nuclear makes electricity.

We should try to get to the point where we're using the right form of energy to do the right job. Nuclear makes electricity.

And heat. You make a lot of heat with nuclear.

And heat. You make a lot of heat with nuclear.