What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.

The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now.