Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 58.
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This is a very special episode to me. Today we bring you a conversation with Peter Leyden who has spent his career figuring out the future. He started his career in journalism and went on to become, arguably, one of the most influential thinkers about the future of the world.
In today's conversation, we cover a lot of things but focused generally on the future of CleanEnergy, how we know it has arrived, what the Circular Economy really is going to be (BioEngineering), and shifting consumer demand driven by the next generation.
Peter has a lot of really fascinating points of view and I'm confident that you'll enjoy this conversation if you're someone who likes to think about the future and how it might be.
Log of the Show:
Developing the mentality of future looking back
How we get stuck in day-to-day news rather than broad achievements
Future of clean energy
Critical Uncertainty
The innovation adoption curve
How industry shifts
5% of EV Sales
Paradigm Shifts
Total Reinvention of the Vehicle Concept / Autonomous Vehicles
Generational Shifts & Fundamental Technologies
Subsidies - EVs in Particular
Cheap Energy to Solve Climate Change
Global Capital Shift and the US Signal
Bio-Engineering Boom
EV Adoption Setting up Adoption of all ClimateTech
The Circular Economy
Bio-Engineering Materials and Production of Goods
BioEngineered Bottles that biodegrade
The Ultimate Circular Economy; a World of Synthetic Biology
Possible Public Blowback on Bio-Engineering Food
Old Technology Doesn't go Away
Fusion Energy
Energy Abundance
Shifting Consumer Demand
Corporates Chasing GenZ and Millenial Demand
Vision for America and Politics
History Makes Sense but The Present Isn't as Clear
California: the Future Version of America & Gavin Newsom
North Star is the No Carbon Economy
Role of Government
Space Travel
Wrap up
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#58 - The Future of Clean Energy, Materials/Mfg, & the Circular Economy with Author, Peter Leyden