The fastest energy transition in human history is happening right now
In 2015, solar generated 256 TWh globally
Today it’s over 2,700 TWh. Solar met 83% of all new electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025 alone
Renewables just overtook coal as the world’s #1 electricity source
And we’re still just getting started
"Solar electricity will become by far the biggest source of power for civilization” — Elon Musk
The Sun sends Earth enough energy in 1 hour to power all of humanity for a full year. One year of sunlight contains more energy than every oil well, coal mine, and gas field on Earth - combined
We are capturing a fraction of a fraction of that
The only thing standing between us and energy abundance is the speed at which we choose to build
We are not in an energy shortage
We are in an urgency shortage
By the end of 2026, AI will likely surpass every individual human intelligence on Earth
By 2030, it will surpass the collective intelligence of everyone on Earth
So we’re moving into the singularity
We are currently writing the ‘initial conditions’ for a superintelligence. If those conditions are ‘woke’ or dishonest, we are literally coding our own extinction…
The story behind the New York Times’ 1903 claim that human flight was between one and ten million years away is even worse than it looks.
Once you understand the backstory, you realize that the New York Times story is not really about flight at all but about how elites and credentialed “experts” mistake their own failures for the boundaries of possibility.
The New York Times did not dismiss the possibility of powered flight at random. There was a very specific reason behind it. At the time, America’s most prominent scientific authority, Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley, had been showered with large amounts of taxpayer funding to build an aircraft, the Langley Aerodrome. Despite all the money, institutional backing, and elite prestige, Langley and his team could not get it to fly, culminating in a series of very public failures, the last on December 8, 1903.
So when the New York Times declared that flight was millions of years away, what it was really saying was that if the most credentialed and well-funded “experts” cannot do it, then it cannot be done.
A mere nine days later, the elites’ proclamation of impossibility lay in ruins. Two totally unknown bicycle mechanics from Ohio achieved the first powered flight using improvised parts, a few hundred dollars of their own money, and sheer persistence.
The story of flight is, at its core, a story of the triumph of American individualism over elite credentialism. The fact that it was the New York Times that inadvertently delivered the proof is the most fitting conclusion imaginable.
US population grew 6% in the last decade.
Federal spending grew 40%, inflation adjusted.
Not as bad as California, but you have to ask - where did all the money go?