Idk man, it's the 21st century and we're still not very far transitioned off of coal
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Every US President since fucking Eisenhower has given speeches about how we need to move off of fossil fuels
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It's interesting - science fiction underpredicted fields like computing but overpredicted the future supply of energy
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Energy is this hard bottleneck - we're still getting it the same fundamental way we've gotten it for 100 years
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That's what it means that we don't have "flying cars" - we do, we just can't afford to fly them
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Like we can build a helicopter, we can speculate on how they could be easier to pilot, but the math doesn't add up for owning one
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We went "backwards" in flight tech when we retired the Concorde bc the speed wasn't worth the fuel cost
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Tech keeps moving forward when it comes to things that aren't directly energy dependent
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Computing is all about steadily doing more cool stuff while drawing the same amount of actual physical power
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But on energy we're stuck, even though in theory we should have all the pieces to move forward
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Why do I still have to burn natural gas out of the ground like my grandparents did to keep warm every winter, etc
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