What does a livable future look like 100 years from now? If we unlocked unlimited green energy, what would we actually do with it? And are our dreams of a renewable-energy utopia sometimes just as delusional as the old fossil-fueled, drill-baby-drill mentality?Alex Leff of the Human Nature Odyssey podcast hosts this special Crazy Town highlights compilation. Alex revisits some of the most thought-provoking moments from Crazy Town, weaving in new commentary and context. Together, we explore energy literacy, the promises and pitfalls of a renewable-energy transition, and why toasting a simple slice of bread is much harder than you might think.Along the way, we meet an Olympic athlete trying to toast bread with nothing but a bicycle. We also step inside a billionaire’s latest invention—a time-travel device designed to fling us one hundred years into the future.Stay tuned for Part 2, where we take the full leap into the time machine and imagine what life a century from now could really look like in a post high-energy future.Sources/Links/Notes:<ul><li>The Toaster Challenge, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Olympic Cyclist Vs. Toaster: Can He Power It?</a>, 2015</li><li>Tom Murphy, <a href="https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Galactic-Scale Energy</a>, Do the Math, 2011.</li><li>Tom Murphy, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01652-6.epdf?sharing_token=yNwL92oPzcpklZSqVsr-ndRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0N0u2htmeT1Hou6SrdtT_vjhsjDi8mPyrY6gILuO1cIPYM5r9vTrCV6dFSGWkHiq63t24rvELuWNN1w82farMIezAYiWj7ialZ8KkzI_SEgHP98WBPRE6PFu8lx9H4EP5A%3D" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Limits to Economic Growth</a>, Nature Physics, August, 2022.</li><li><a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/scottbrusaw/solar-roadways" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Solar Freakin' Roadways</a>, Indiegogo, 2014</li><li><a href="https://www.resilience.org/human-nature-odyssey-podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Human Nature Odyssey</a> podcast</li></ul> Related episode(s) of Crazy Town:<a href="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/60162d60-3e56-4fce-9fc0-fd6d328fa105.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Episode 3</a> "1.21 Jigawatts: Energy Literacy and the Real Scoop on Fossil Fuels"<a href="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7742804a-b25d-4706-aacb-97f7d93d90e4.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Episode 5</a> "Solar Freakin' Roadways: How Technological Optimism Undermines Sustainability"<a href="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/fcfe6259-7224-40cc-88ad-438c059027dd.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Episode 106</a> "Blinded by the Light - Facing Reality with Renewable Energy"ADDITIONAL MUSICModified version of "Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30" by Strauss, from classicals.de — licensed under CC BY 4.0

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