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171 - The NUCLEAR Option

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🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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What's the most important resource in the entire universe?

0:05.0

Water maybe? Is it? Um, it's a great dumb question. I'll say that. Wait, there can't. I don't know. I would say, I would say water. Yeah, because water is the universal

0:26.4

solvent and water enables our biological life to happen. You don't have water, you're done. You also need oxygen, but oxygen is

0:36.3

kind of in water. So if you, like in a pinch, you could figure out how to get oxygen out of water.

0:41.0

It's right in there, isn't it? Yeah, it is.

0:43.0

Yeah.

0:44.0

But how would you get the oxygen out of the water?

0:46.0

Electrolysis, this is one way I would do it.

0:48.0

Yeah, that's probably how I would do it.

0:50.0

See, and that's why I'd go energy.

0:52.0

I would just say energy is the thing, harnessable, usable energy.

0:56.0

Okay. Right? Because food is energy, heat is energy. I mean it seems like if there were ever going to be a situation

1:05.1

where some evil tycoon takes over everything with a monocle with a monocle

1:10.5

obviously he's got a vest and a dirigible that has autogons yes on all the sides of it

1:15.2

be awesome it's so awesome yeah yeah does he have facial hair no none no he's just really fat

1:22.3

it's got like a big chin that goes at like a...

1:24.6

You don't think that mustache curls at the tips? The mustache does? Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, he's got a mustache. I think so. You're right. Go ahead.

1:31.2

Yeah, it almost holds up the monocle. Yeah, what's this guy doing? Well, he's harnessing all the energy. This guy, he figured out how to make the energy happen in such a way that he just owns all the energy.

1:43.0

He discovered a thing that renders obsolete and so inefficient, all other forms of gathering

1:50.9

and harnessing energy, that now all of the energy business runs

1:55.0

through him which effectively brings all governments to their knees and now

1:59.7

energy guy he's the king of everything, right?

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