The Future of Energy Generation and Consumption

My colleague Nate Hagens came across a press release on one on my books today and wrote to me: “Craig: You’ve been busy…. I wrote this (linked below), in case you’re interested.  Kindly, Nate”

I invite readers who are trying to wrap their wits around the future of energy generation and consumption to check this out.  If I had to name the five smartest people I’ve met in all my days crawling across this sad planet, Nate would most certainly be among them.  I wrote back:

Yes, I’ve been busy, but you have been as well, as evidenced by your writing this incredible piece. My fondest hope for humankind is that there remains on Earth a lively community of enlightened and sufficiently capable people to absorb what you’ve laid out here.  Though I doubt that’s true, I hope I’m wrong. 

At this risk of sounding immodest, I credit myself with some level of ability to take in the breadth of the science that you present: physics, chemistry, paleontology, geology, etc. But I need to remind you of what I told you when we came to the end of the day I spend with you at the Aspen Institute, during which I interviewed you for my second book (“Is Renewable Really Doable?”).  For some strange reason, I remember the words almost exactly.  I said, totally exhausted, “This is more than enough. It’s been a great day, but I have to leave to catch a train. And even if that weren’t the case, my brain hurts.” 

Keep up the good work.