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Part 2 of 2: David Friedberg is All-In on Science (#298)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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The Core Driver of Human Civilization Is Consumptive Pattern

Renewables are great to kind of do some decarbonization in the near term but like they're not going to kind of replace everything. There's no reason that you can't have fusion ultimately reduced in scale to fit in a watch. We've increased energy production by about 20 fold in the last 100 years on earth. I think in the next hundred years we can and should increase energy production by over a hundred fold.

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