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“What I don't want is the sort of generalized hype around SMRs to translate into just yet another round of a large and historically Corrupt and incompetent industry getting another giant round of subsidies dumped on its head for ultimately nothing, which is wha…”

“And that's an alternative to natural gas utilities, slowly withering and dying, which is what all the natural gas utilities across the country are facing right now.”

“I would just say that my, I guess my prediction would be that in 10 years, maybe or in 20, that just a unit of critical minerals drawn from recycling will be cheaper than a unit of Mind. I think. I think. Eventually. Like, I think it will end up being our prim…”

“You could stand up and do a reasonably large scale test on your own without a ton of money, arguably without being detected doing so by the world.”

“I would like to see them get serious about exploiting distributed capacity. I think that's faster and cheaper than on-site generation if we can get the financial and institutional arrangements lined up the right way.”

“You and I know that the way the long-term evolution is that basically everything that is plugged in is gonna become a resource eventually. Like, the notion of DERs as a kind of distinct category, I think, is just gonna kind of fade away, because eventually, li…”

“Pakistan went, like, I think it was like two years or three years, 40% of its total load now was It has imported solar panels equivalent to 40% of its total load.”

“I think the reason it's going to be a big enough deal that even normies will hear about it is that it is going to be this kind of skeleton key that unlocks the decarbonization of industrial heating and cooling, which is, you know, one of the big quote unquote …”

“I just want people to see nuclear, not as some sort of special, unique kind of power, but simply one of the options on the table for balancing longer term Renewable energy. One among others, there are other options. There's geothermal, there's longer term stor…”

“And basically, if you can build one of these things, you have what I think is Easily the cheapest and cleanest and most efficient way of heating and cooling buildings that exists in the world, as far as I can tell.”

“I just think substitution plus new sources. Over the midterm, mid to longterm, is going to solve this. I agree that there will be years, couple of years, choke points here and there, as we've all, as we've already seen a couple of materials get tight. But I ju…”

“Hard to decarbonize sectors are going to be easier to decarbonize than I think is expected, technologically speaking. And I think that's been a theme in the clean energy transition now for decades is that the technological challenges turn out to be a lot more …”

“Over the course of my career, most attempts to grapple with climate change via art, you know, music, or movies, or TV shows, or poetry, have just been bad.”

“You just end up talking to other climate people, and you end up Arguing with other climate people and forming these sort of teams and factions within the climate movement because no one else is paying attention. So I think that's sort of like become the cultur…”

“So anyway, I think within five to 10 years, we will at least see cities where these things become ubiquitous, and then I think at the very least we'll have directionally Answers to some of these things.”

“Which gets you way higher efficiency. Like you can get 95% of your heat back out.”

“If you talk to the people at the DOE, the loans office, they'll tell you what needs to be replicated and done the same way over and over again is not necessarily the hardware, the chunks of hardware, it's construction practices. It's the construction sub parts…”

“It's so big and so distant and so kind of all-encompassing and abstract that it's very difficult to approach it via a specific place or person or story or relationship, and those specifics are what give art its power and its meaning.”

“If you tell people, I made a movie about climate change, they're not going to herd to see it. They're just not.”

“We're evolved creatures who are evolved to care about things within a certain space around us and on a certain timescale, right? We're just mammals. That means close proximity and relatively short timescales. And climate is huge and far away and slow.”

“25 states had laws either Proposed or announced to be proposed to legalize balcony solar.”

“It broke records on Netflix. I think it has the most hours streamed for any movie in Netflix history in the space of a week, the week of December 27th, and in terms of total streams, it's the second biggest movie in Netflix history.”