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#50 – Doyne Farmer on Complexity and Predicting Technological Progress

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Climate Change

Solar cells have improved in power by a factor of five thousand since their inception. Wind power has also gone down at a fairly steady rate on lithiun batteries. These are all key technologies for climate change. But n buth other technologies like fossil fuels, fossil fuel prices now are within a factor of two of what they were hundred and forty years ago.

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