17 May

Remember the term ‘superpower’. Understand it. It’s not about comics, it’s the technical revolution solar, wind and batteries (SWB) are introducing. SWB doesn’t just replace our existing fossil fuel energy, it floods the world with super abundant near-free and clean energy. They install enough SWB to meet the ‘inelastic’ peak demand (the maximum we need in a year), but by doing that they install enough to produce far beyond that, at a marginal cost of near zero. That not only provides an amount of energy well beyond what we use now, for free, to do things like provide widespread abundant water by using desalination (imagine that, limitless water!), but it also stops the power politics of energy where a handful of places own all the energy reserves and dominate everybody else. With SWB, everywhere on the planet can produce its own energy, for a marginal cost of near-zero. This is the greatest revolution in human history. You’re living inside it.