Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.

The primary means of energy generation is going to solar. It will at least be a plurality, and probably be a slight majority in the long term.

If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.

The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

Let's think beyond the normal stuff and have an environment where that sort of thinking is encouraged and rewarded and where it's okay to fail as well. Because when you try new things, you try this idea, that idea... well a large number of them are not gonna work, and that has to be okay. If every time somebody comes up with an idea it has to be successful, you're not gonna get people coming up with ideas.

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.