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How to solve climate change and make life more awesome

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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We Should Be Making Surfboards Out of Fingernails, Right?

I think I don't really buy into that we're all going to fly these multicopters, which are terrible aircraft. But flying slowly and little fixed-wing aircraft could be nearly as efficient as electric vehicles. It turns out at about 60 or 70 miles an hour, it costs you less energy to fly than it does to drive. Sticking to the road costs you energy. So you may as well fly.

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