Juan Enriquez: Why can't we grow new energy?

Yeah, thank natural selection.

RIP Borlag.

Solar sucks.

It costs some per ~$5 000/kW installed capacity.

At 10-25% capacity factor this is equivalent to $18 000 - $45 000 per kW nuclear.

Then there's interest(curiously omited by solar pushers) now you're up to some $36 000 - $90 000 per kW.

In a post-carbon grid you have to overbuild by a factor of several times to deal with winter and throw away the surplus in summer. Now you're talking closer to $100 000 to $500 000 per kW of nuclear equivalent, a factor 100 to large to compete.

Exactly what I was saying

An interesting talk until his final suggestion. If OPEC wants to give me cheap oil, let them!

"Excellent points!" Opec is keeping renewable enegry from us!

i love that idea in the end ..sooo true

Genes are more like the toolbox routines on a computer, rather than a program.
A Genome is like a program, it repeatedly calls Genes(Like Toolbox Routines) in different contexts and at different times.

well, i think firstly anything can be compared... but specifically why can't you compare a gene to software? both of them produce outputs through the needed mechanisms provided by hardware and proteins. also if you alter genes you get a different output same with altering a program.

i think he means it metaphorically