Scott Tinker

They're tough. Again, that's a good topic to come to. But I'd say density is a fundamental concept. I did a TEDx talk to 1,100 kids and the way I explained density to start it was with food. I just said, hey, there's kale and there's cow. Right. And they both give me calories. Only marketers think kale is food, by the way. Well, okay. And a lot of people have written me and said, kale?

They're tough. Again, that's a good topic to come to. But I'd say density is a fundamental concept. I did a TEDx talk to 1,100 kids and the way I explained density to start it was with food. I just said, hey, there's kale and there's cow. Right. And they both give me calories. Only marketers think kale is food, by the way. Well, okay. And a lot of people have written me and said, kale?

Can you pick something else? But no, kale and cow are kind of fun. And I threw in ice cream too. But I'd have to eat a whole lot of kale. to get the same calories as a piece of steak, just volumetrically, right? And so the density, when you start thinking about density, you can think about it in food terms now.

Can you pick something else? But no, kale and cow are kind of fun. And I threw in ice cream too. But I'd have to eat a whole lot of kale. to get the same calories as a piece of steak, just volumetrically, right? And so the density, when you start thinking about density, you can think about it in food terms now.

Can you pick something else? But no, kale and cow are kind of fun. And I threw in ice cream too. But I'd have to eat a whole lot of kale. to get the same calories as a piece of steak, just volumetrically, right? And so the density, when you start thinking about density, you can think about it in food terms now.

Yeah, cows chew forever.

Yeah, cows chew forever.

Yeah, cows chew forever.

Now, I happen to think, at least for my body, a mixture of food inputs isn't a bad thing. Okay, I don't have allergies, I'm good. So I have vegetables, I have some fruits, I eat meat for sure and other things, and it's a diverse diet. Think about that like energy. So in density terms, we come back to energy. Energy per unit weight.

Now, I happen to think, at least for my body, a mixture of food inputs isn't a bad thing. Okay, I don't have allergies, I'm good. So I have vegetables, I have some fruits, I eat meat for sure and other things, and it's a diverse diet. Think about that like energy. So in density terms, we come back to energy. Energy per unit weight.

Now, I happen to think, at least for my body, a mixture of food inputs isn't a bad thing. Okay, I don't have allergies, I'm good. So I have vegetables, I have some fruits, I eat meat for sure and other things, and it's a diverse diet. Think about that like energy. So in density terms, we come back to energy. Energy per unit weight.

Things like hay, our first energy ever that our vehicles ate to motor themselves around, and wood, and dung. And other kinds of biomass were the early human-like things used for energy.

Things like hay, our first energy ever that our vehicles ate to motor themselves around, and wood, and dung. And other kinds of biomass were the early human-like things used for energy.

Things like hay, our first energy ever that our vehicles ate to motor themselves around, and wood, and dung. And other kinds of biomass were the early human-like things used for energy.

And still do. We are consuming more of those things than we ever have still, which is ironic. There are more people. So not percentage-wise, but in actual consumption units, more of those. No, you start to transition naturally. We discover charcoal or coal. Nature took all the plants and made it into a dense carbon form called coal. Nature did the work, time, heat, pressure.

And still do. We are consuming more of those things than we ever have still, which is ironic. There are more people. So not percentage-wise, but in actual consumption units, more of those. No, you start to transition naturally. We discover charcoal or coal. Nature took all the plants and made it into a dense carbon form called coal. Nature did the work, time, heat, pressure.

And still do. We are consuming more of those things than we ever have still, which is ironic. There are more people. So not percentage-wise, but in actual consumption units, more of those. No, you start to transition naturally. We discover charcoal or coal. Nature took all the plants and made it into a dense carbon form called coal. Nature did the work, time, heat, pressure.

So now I've got dense plants called coal. And in 1804, the very first commercial steam engine for a train in Wales took its first journey, 1804. And there were a billion people in the world in 1804. We'd grown from 110 million in 1000 BC. It was a perfect census back then, we know. They counted them all. 110 million to 1 billion in those thousands of years.

So now I've got dense plants called coal. And in 1804, the very first commercial steam engine for a train in Wales took its first journey, 1804. And there were a billion people in the world in 1804. We'd grown from 110 million in 1000 BC. It was a perfect census back then, we know. They counted them all. 110 million to 1 billion in those thousands of years.

So now I've got dense plants called coal. And in 1804, the very first commercial steam engine for a train in Wales took its first journey, 1804. And there were a billion people in the world in 1804. We'd grown from 110 million in 1000 BC. It was a perfect census back then, we know. They counted them all. 110 million to 1 billion in those thousands of years.