Back to episode — Episode 2976 CWSA 10/02/25
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his? Do you remember that at the beginning of yesterday's show, I decided to be a little bit vulnerable and opened up my test results for my testosterone levels, which is important to see that they're as low as possible for cancer reasons. You don't want high testosterone if you have cancer because the cancer just eats the testosterone. So you want to lower your testosterone depending on, I suppos…
← Previous segment →I guess Cambridge, one of their sciency parts of their university figured out how to make an organic solar panel. So they use some exotic organic material and here's how efficient it is. It's nearly 100%. You know how if you shine sunlight on a regular solar panel and it used to be they could get, you know, they could convert 10% of the light to energy and they get better and better. It was like, oh, 20%. Now I think the best ones, correct me if I'm wrong, are maybe approaching 30% conversion to energy. These organic ones are close to 100%. Which means you could put organic panels. I'm making this part up, but you know, just to tell you how unlikely it is. It means that if you put these panels around the walls of your room and then you turned on the lights, the lights would create enough energy to power the lights. Not 100%, but it might be like 98% of all the energy you need to power the lights, maybe.
Now, all of these solar breakthroughs because there seems like there's one every day, but you're not going to see them on the market. This is probably a 5 to 10 years away if they can do it at all. You know, because it's tough to manufacture these exotic things. It would take years to figure out how to make a factory to make it. You'd have to test it to see if it lasts as long and it's economical. So it would take forever to actually reach the market. But imagine if it worked and solar panels could get to something like unity, I think they call it, where it just captures all the energy. We might get there. So that's maybe good news.
And my question is which of the climate models has modeled that in five to 10 years solar panels will be nearly 100% efficient and easier to make because there would be no exotic materials. You wouldn't have to get anything from China. So which of the climate models had that? If this one thing turns out to be true plus battery storage so that your light can be used any time, it'll change everything and it's just one thing that science is working on.
The other thing that could change everything is these small modular nuclear power plants, you know, the modular ones. So the government is now all about approving these sort of standardized smaller nuclear power plants. As soon as they start building a few of those, that changes everything. So you've got unlimited fusion energy on the way. Actually, one or two plants have actually been approved for building fusion. They're so close to it that they think they should start building the thing. So you're going to have fusion. You can have small nuclear that's a new version of nuclear, but not fusion. And you might have these insane solar panels. And probably all of it looks to be hitting in the 10 to 15 year range would be my guess because it just takes a while. But in 10 to 15 years, if we could move to that, then even if climate change was a problem, I don't think it is, but even if it is, we're going to be in good shape with energy.
We might find that even if climate isn't the problem many people thought it was, and I think that's where we'll end up on climate, it will still be the greatest boon to humanity that we took energy costs from way too expensive to oh now it's practically a commodity. You're going to need that energy to be a commodity in the age of robots and
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self-driving cars and AI. So for all the wrong reasons, we might be moving really quickly in the right direction because the climate change people are going to love these new sources of energy. The AI and robot people are going to say there's no limit to how much energy we need so you better do everything. So suddenly for completely different reasons the entire planet was on the same page about en…
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