Friday Quote

“One thing you can do is fund advanced nuclear. I’m a big fan of that and am working in that area. Nuclear energy is a baseload—meaning it’s power that you can run any time you want, day or night—and carbon-free. Another kind of R&D to invest in would be energy storage. If you had a really good —battery, it wouldn’t matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.” - theoretical physicist Nathan Myhrvold i n a recent Newsweek Q&A about the future of energy

Nathan Myhrvold earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics by age 23 - pretty smart guy huh? He has some pretty interesting theories and thoughts on the future of energy. Not that we necessarily agree with any of them, but they’re interesting nonetheless.