Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, blackjack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What’s the point?
I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
