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/