Eli Dourado and Austin Vernon on Energy Superabundance and Creating a Prosperous 21st Century

Eli Dourado (@elidourado) and Austin Vernon (@vernon3austin) join Patrick Blumenthal (@patrickjblum) to discuss their recent paper, Energy Superabundance: How Cheap, Abundant Energy Will Shape Our Future. Other topics discussed: - How Energy Superabundance can Lead us from a Carbon Surplus to a Carbon Shortage - How did a Scarcity Mindset Take Root in America? - The Policies that we Need for a Prosperous Century - The Future of Nuclear Energy - Building More Rather than Less to Solve Climate Change - Will China Reach Superabundance Before America? - How we can Improve Utilities and the American Power Grid - Is the Government Getting Better or Worse at Funding Innovation? - How Painful will the Next Decade be? - How do we Improve Supply Chain Resilience? - Eli and Austin’s Request for Startups - What does a World with Superabundance Look Like? You can read their paper here: https://www.thecgo.org/research/energy-superabundance/