kind of thing. It's not an X Prize but his own thing. He offered up to pay a hundred million dollars to whoever comes up with the best carbon capture technology. Who else did that? Like who else could have? Who else was smart enough? Who else knew that carbon capture technology is basically the only way to fix things?

Did you know that? Did you know that there's basically no way to fix climate change if you think it's a problem? If you think it's a problem there's no way to do it and also feed the poor. I was reading an article by Bill Gates who was lamenting in great detail the same thing. If you tried to meet the climate goals it would be so aggressive it would just destroy all the poor people. Basically couldn't eat at that point. So you might starve a billion people to make the Green New Deal work. Now I'm making up those numbers but I'm trying to give you the sense that we're not talking about a small problem. You're talking about maybe you kill a billion people to get to the point where your CO2 is low enough that you don't destroy the planet.

Now that's Bill Gates who's really looked into it, right? And he's telling you you can't get there from here with any way that we can think of. Think about that. Bill Gates literally says the end of the world is coming basically through climate change and we don't know how to stop it. He says that directly. I mean I'm paraphrasing but he says it essentially directly. Now that's not to say that we're doomed and I don't think so. I think that we will innovate our way out of it and that's what Elon's tried to do.

But my point is this. Yeah it's like it's like my leaf blower problem except with boats. The problem is this for Elon. If Elon Musk doesn't fix the world and save it who else will? Now I hear what you're saying. People are saying nuclear, nuclear. Actually if you listen to Bill Gates and he was very compelling you could not build enough nuclear plants fast enough. It just isn't any way to do it. If you do the math there's nothing you can do fast enough that would fix the problem. You can delay it and building nuclear as fast as you can would definitely help, would definitely delay it, definitely good to do. But it doesn't come close according to Bill Gates. It doesn't come close even if you did everything really aggressively. It just wouldn't come close.

Do you know what would? Carbon capture. If somebody can build efficient enough carbon capture then we can be let's say bad with our energy policy, use too many carbon fuels but just suck them out of the air. Now maybe the math of that doesn't work either but I have a feeling that the fact that Elon put 100 million into it shows me two things. Number one he's got a lot of money. That's the first thing. Number two he's not the entrepreneur who's just gonna be funding the thing that's let's say politically hot. He's going to do the thing that works because he's an engineer, right?

So when Elon says carbon capture is worth an enormous investment, 100 million dollars and plus whatever it would take to roll it out, when Elon Musk says that you know that's probably the lever you need to start pulling, right? And those of you who are saying carbon capture equals trees, carbon capture can be done with a tree. We don't have to invent that. Plant some more trees. You can't get there from here. Trees are good carbon capture but you couldn't grow enough. You couldn't plant enough. You just can't get there. There's no path with just trees. Trees plus nuclear power, not enough. Trees plus solar and wind and every green technology pushing as hard as you can, not even close. You can't get there from here. There's no path to stop the end of the Earth according to Bill Gates.

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