Back to episode — Episode 2579 CWSA 08/28/24
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that study? Oh yeah, they could have asked Scott. Next time I could save you probably several weeks and maybe tens of thousands of dollars. You just have to ask me. Scott, what do depressed people do when they're depressed? Well, they probably eat, because eating gives you a little boost. What do you think they eat? Well, probably something that boosts their mood pretty quickly, like a steak. Well…
← Previous segment →'ll be happy in the short run? Yes. Will eating a lot of carbs make you happy in the long run? Everybody knows the answer to that is no, because you're going to get heavy and it's not going to be good for your brain. So yeah, you could have skipped the science there. Just ask me. Yeah, eating ice cream makes me happy in the short run. How does it work in the long run? Not so good.
Here's what I call ironic science, and we'll get to the politics in a minute. Ironic science, where the thing you didn't see coming turns out that you can use a giant bubble of CO2 to store renewable energy, according to Clean Technica. So apparently they have this way that they can compress CO2 and then decompress it, and somehow they can store energy and then release it through the decompression. Now imagine if that becomes a real thing and that we're using excess CO2 to store electricity from green energy.
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Now, I wouldn't bet very much that this will become a big thing, but how cool is it that what at least some people think is our biggest problem, the CO2, could be our biggest solution? I've long wondered if we will have an industry where sucking CO2 out of the air and turning it into products, in this case a battery, is going to be a thing. So much so that people are sucking too much CO2 out of t…
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