At our LessWrong community camp the keynote was given by Josh Hall and he talked about why we don’t have flying cars.
He made a convincing case that the problem is that while in the 50′s where people predicted flying cars energy costs had been getting cheaper every year. Since the 70′s they didn’t and thus the energy that’s required for flying cars is too expensive.
He then went to say that the same goes for underwater cities.
If we would have cheap energy we would have no problem growing food indoors with LEDs. Currently that only makes economic sense for marijuana and some algea that produces high quality nutrients.
Indoors growing has the advantage that you need less pesticides when you can control the environment better.
It seems to me like next generation nuclear that has the potential to produce more energy for a cheaper price would help with making us independent of the sun.
It meshes well with Peter Thiel, Bill Gates and Sam Altman all having invested money into nuclear solutions.
This could potentially help many decades in the future. But it would need to be an order of magnitude or more reduction in energy costs for this to produce a lot of food. And I am particularly concerned about one of these catastrophes happening in the next decade.
At our LessWrong community camp the keynote was given by Josh Hall and he talked about why we don’t have flying cars. He made a convincing case that the problem is that while in the 50′s where people predicted flying cars energy costs had been getting cheaper every year. Since the 70′s they didn’t and thus the energy that’s required for flying cars is too expensive.
He then went to say that the same goes for underwater cities.
If we would have cheap energy we would have no problem growing food indoors with LEDs. Currently that only makes economic sense for marijuana and some algea that produces high quality nutrients. Indoors growing has the advantage that you need less pesticides when you can control the environment better.
It seems to me like next generation nuclear that has the potential to produce more energy for a cheaper price would help with making us independent of the sun.
It meshes well with Peter Thiel, Bill Gates and Sam Altman all having invested money into nuclear solutions.
This could potentially help many decades in the future. But it would need to be an order of magnitude or more reduction in energy costs for this to produce a lot of food. And I am particularly concerned about one of these catastrophes happening in the next decade.