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When does predicting the future become a science and not a fantasy? What can be learned from forecasts throughout the ages and across different industries? What does the future of energy look like, given certain unchangeable limitations of physics themselves?Mark P. Mills is the founder and executive director of the National Center for Energy Analytics and the author of the books The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s, Digital Cathedrals, and Work in the Age of Robots. Greg and Mark discuss the complexities and pitfalls of forecasting, why we often get it wrong, and the various types of forecasters. Mark explains the interconnectedness of energy, computing, and infrastructure, arguing against a simplistic view of an energy transition and highlighting the intricate dance of innovation and efficiency across centuries. He also touches on the future impact of AI, the importance of complementary investments for technological growth, and the profound phase changes society is currently undergoing. *unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*Episode Quotes:On forecasting and the future of technology06:04: In the book [The Cloud Revolution], what I chose to do was a framing of a forecast with technology that was very specific, and which I think can be highly predictive and accurate. And this is not about how much money people will make or what company will succeed, but if you want to forecast the next decade on technology, not about human nature, not about wars, not about who gets elected, those things all matter because the world is dynamic, and these things interact. Economies matter; they affect our ability to build things, fund things. So, an economy that's shrinking can delay the forecast of a new product or service because if the new product or service requires new capital, new infrastructure, and capital's expensive, then the actual emergence of that system might take longer than you thought, but it'll still happen. It'll just happen later.Efficiency fuels demand, not reduces it44:15: The idea, which we can find better and implement better through compute communications and AI, means that we have not tapped all the efficiencies, systems, and supply chains. There's enormous efficiency to be had. But efficiency creates demand; it doesn't kill demand…This complete misunderstanding of efficiency is a failure to understand how humans operate, how we live our lives, and what we like to do.Why big airplanes won't fly on lithium batteries40:39: When the technologies are new, there are two things about them: we haven't figured out how to make them at physics limits yet. Our knowledge is weak. We haven't refined the engineering because it's a new technology. So, as you do that, you approach physics limits. And this is what's going on now with batteries. You can't store more energy in a lithium battery than exists in the lithiated chemicals. You can't. I mean, it's the lithium atom. It's one of the most energetic atoms on the periodic table. But lithiated chemicals have one-fifth the energy per pound that hydrocarbons do. So, hydrocarbons start with a 50-fold. That's a pretty big advantage in energy per pound. So, what you would do then is make machines to extract the energy per pound, which is why big airplanes are not going to have lithium batteries. They'll carry them, but they're not going to fly with them. Little ones can because the advantage that the hydrocarbons have in the physics of the universe we live in is so much greater. So, it doesn't matter how cheap the lithium is. If it were free, it wouldn't change the fact that the fuel for the airplane would weigh more than the airplane because it's not dense enough.Systems have inertia33:48: Systems have inertia, economic systems, and financial systems. Physical systems all have inertia. It's a physics term, but it's anchored in how the universe really operates. You can't change big things quickly, except by explosions, right? In social economic terms and physical terms. You can change things quickly and explosively, but explosions are destructive, whether it's a financial, economic, or physical system. So, the velocity of change first begins with the size of the system you're trying to change. Show Links:Recommended Resources:1939 New York World's FairFuture ShockPeter DruckerIrving FisherKenneth J. GergenMalthusianismSimon–Ehrlich wagerFirst Jewish–Roman WarRobert SolowThe Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic ProgressGuest Profile:LinkedInProfessional Profile on National Center for Energy AnalyticsMark P. Mills Tech-Pundit.comProfile on XHis Work:Amazon Author PageThe Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020sDigital CathedralsWork in the Age of RobotsForbes Articles
Subscribe to Charles' Alpha Investor newsletter today: https://pro.banyanhill.com/m/2353545In this insightful episode of the Charles Mizrahi Show, we welcome back Mark Mills, a renowned energy expert and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Join us as we explore the intricate relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and energy consumption, and the significant impact this has on our future. Mark is also the author of The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s Mark shares his recent testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, providing a firsthand account of the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of AI and energy. We delve into the practical realities of electric vehicles (EVs) and renewable energy sources, discussing the hurdles that need to be overcome for a successful transition.The conversation also covers the massive energy demands of data centers, which are poised to grow even further with the advancement of AI technologies. Mark compares the current AI revolution to past technological advancements, offering valuable insights into the future growth and energy requirements of AI.For investors, this episode highlights promising opportunities in the energy and tech sectors, focusing on companies that stand to benefit from the AI boom. We also examine the role of government regulation in shaping the energy infrastructure and the need for policy reform to support sustainable growth.Tune in for a compelling discussion that blends energy expertise with forward-thinking perspectives on technology and investment. Mark Mills' deep understanding of the energy landscape and his vision for the future make this a must-listen episode for anyone interested in the evolving dynamics of AI and energy.Don't miss out on this engaging and informative episode that promises to broaden your understanding of one of the most critical issues of our time.Topics Discussed:● Introduction and Guest Welcome (00:00:00)● Discussion on Energy and AI (00:03:01)● Testimony Before the Senate (00:10:01)● The Reality of EVs and Renewable Energy (00:17:01)● Data Centers and Energy Consumption (00:25:01)● The Future of AI and Energy (00:35:01)● Comparison to Historical Technological Advances (00:45:01)● Implications for Investors (00:55:01)● The Role of Government and Regulation (1:05:01)● Closing Remarks and Future Outlook (1:15:01)Guest Bio:Mark Mills is a physicist, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. He was named “Energy Writer of the Year” by the American Energy Society. He has written several award-winning books, including his latest The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s. The Biden administration plans to eliminate fossil fuels as a form of energy generation in the U.S. by 2035. Not so, says Mark. Resources Mentioned:The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s Follow me on Social Media! X: https://www.x.com/CharlesMizrahi Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CharlesMizrahiAlpha/Instagram:
Mark Mills is the executive director of the National Centre for Energy Analytics and author of “The Cloud Revolution” How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s. Join us as we explore how to power an AI enhanced Cloud network and its implications on the grid and climate politics.
Mark P. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is also a strategic partner with Montrose Lane (an energy-tech venture fund). Previously, Mills cofounded Digital Power Capital, a boutique venture fund, and was chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies, helping take it public in 2007. Mills is author of the book The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s (Encounter Books, 2021), and host of the new podcast The Last Optimist. He is also author of Digital Cathedrals (2020), and Work in the Age of Robots (2018). Mills earlier coauthored (with Peter Huber) The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (Basic Books, 2005). His articles have been published widely, including in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, and Real Clear. Mills has appeared as a guest on CNN, Fox, NBC, PBS, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In 2016, Mills was named “Energy Writer of the Year” by the American Energy Society. Earlier, Mills was a technology advisor for Bank of America Securities and coauthor of the Huber-Mills Digital Power Report, a tech investment newsletter. He has testified before Congress numerous times, and briefed state public-service commissions and legislators. Mills served in the White House Science Office under President Reagan and subsequently provided science and technology policy counsel to a variety of private-sector firms, the Department of Energy, and U.S. research laboratories, and prior to that began his career as an experimental physicist and development engineer in microprocessors and fiber optics. Early in his career, Mills was an experimental physicist and development engineer at Bell Northern Research (Canada's Bell Labs) and at the RCA David Sarnoff Research Center on microprocessors, fiber optics, missile guidance, earning several patents for his work. He holds a degree in physics from Queen's University, Ontario, Canada. Slides for this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/grand-nexus-information-materials https://twitter.com/MarkPMills The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s https://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Revolution-Convergence-Technologies-Economic/dp/1641772301/ ========= About Tom Nelson: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89cj_OtPeenLkWMmdwcT8Dt0DGMb8RGR Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123 Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/ About Tom: https://tomn.substack.com/about
Manhattan Institute senior fellow Mark Mills is a physicist and venture capitalist in the field of emerging energy technologies. Mark joined Rep. Crenshaw to discuss the physics-driven trade-offs of transitioning to wind, solar, and electric vehicles. How many miles do you need to drive an EV just to break even on the carbon emissions it took to make one battery? How did China in one month wipe out 15 years of Germany's carbon savings? Why do electricity rates continue to rise with the transition to “cheaper” green energy? We answer all these questions and much more as we look at how renewables rank against oil, gas, and nuclear in terms of costs, emissions, land-use impact, and net societal benefits. Mark P. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is the host of The Last Optimist podcast and the author of “The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s.” Follow him on Twitter @MarkPMills
Mark Mills makes his second appearance on the podcast, this time to discuss his book, The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s. Mark's work dissects how advancing technology will provide an economic upswing in the near future. The conversation covers the progress of recent technology and how the everchanging tech landscape will aid humanity moving forward.
Biden's Green Energy mandates have won over millions of Americans … but not Mark Mills. Mark's a physicist who was named “Energy Writer of the Year” by the American Energy Society. He recently authored The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s. And he runs a podcast called The Last Optimist, which features discussions with leading thinkers and innovators. I sat down with Mark to talk about the real-world science behind transitioning an entire national economy to new forms of fuel — and why even President Biden doesn't seem to believe his mandates are realistic. Topics Discussed: An Introduction to Mark Mills (00:00:31) Biden's State of the Union Slip-Up (00:01:42) Energy Mandates aren't Based in Science (00:10:42) The Myth of Zero-Emission Electric Vehicles (00:17:40) Massive Energy Needs for EV Mining (00:23:50) China's Toll on the Road to Renewable Resources (00:34:25) Cobalt Red and the Real-World Cost of EVs (00:40:15) The Rising Cost of EV Minerals (00:47:09) The Real Net Savings of Switching to EVs (00:53:27) Simple Math Points to Rising Oil Prices (1:00:00) Guest Bio: Mark Mills is a physicist, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. He was named “Energy Writer of the Year” by the American Energy Society. He has written several award-winning books, including his latest The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s. The Biden administration plans to eliminate fossil fuels as a form of energy generation in the U.S. by 2035. Not so, says Mark. Resources Mentioned: The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s. Transcript: https://charlesmizrahi.com/podcast/ Don't Forget To... • Subscribe to my podcast! • Download this episode to save for later • Liked this episode? Leave a kind review!
How long will the energy transition take? The challenges are underestimated. Energy consumption will continue to expand as emerging economies develop, and as new classes of technologies emerge (not least AI where its inherent power consumption is an order of magnitude more than conventional computing). The switch from fuels that are mainly liquids and gases to hardware-intensive technologies like wind, solar and batteries, requires enormous quantities of materials; the supply chains for which are already stretched. And if the energy transition is to be delayed, what should we be doing to prepare and are there other options than those being chased now ? Our guest is Mark Mills, author, investor, policy advisor and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Mark's latest book is “The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s”
The modern world's dependence on hydrocarbons won't be ending any time soon, says Mark P. Mills. He says it is physically impossible to switch from coal, oil and gas to solar, wind and batteries in any meaningful time frame. “It is a dangerous delusion to base policies on the idea that such a transition is possible,” he says. “A different understanding of ‘transition' is required, one that recognises that new energy sources should be considered additives, not outright replacements.” Mills joins Nick Cater for this conversation that was originally conducted for Nick Cater's Battleground on ADH TV. Nick Cater is executive director of the Menzies Research Centre, a columnist with The Australian and the presenter of Battleground on ADH TV where this conversation was first broadcast. Support these podcasts by subscribing to the Menzies Research Centre from just $10 a month: www.menziesrc.org/subscribe Email Nick Cater: www.watercooler@menziesrc.org Watch Nick Cater's Battleground on ADH TV https://watch.adh.tv/nick-cater-s-battleground Mark P. Mills is a Manhattan Institute senior fellow, a faculty fellow at Northwestern University's engineering school, and a partner in Montrose Lane, an energy-tech venture fund. He is author of the book The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s (2021), and previously: Digital Cathedrals (2020), Work in The Age of Robots (2018), and The Bottomless Well (2006). He served as chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies, helping to take it public in 2007. Mills served in the Reagan White House Science Office, and before that he was an experimental physicist and development engineer in microprocessors and fibre optics. Download Mark P. Mills's Paper, The Energy Transition ‘Delusion': A Reality Reset https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/sites/default/files/the-energy-transition-delusion_a-reality-reset.pdf
Mark is a physicist who went into business around the environment. There aren't many of us, so I think you'll hear a rapport we enjoyed that I think you'll enjoy too. We indulge in physicist talk.I contacted him because I found his reports on what solar and wind---what I don't see how we can call renewable, green, or clean energy sources---require in their manufacture, transportation, installation, decommissioning, and more. Many fans of such technologies gloss over their problems, which seems to me irresponsible. If we are not honest about them we will make mistakes. Partisanship is a problem when there are testable answers to how much a particular solar installation or strategy to lower emissions works.Mark looks at possible futures but also returns to what's happening today, what works now, not just in the future. He looks at what's going on behind the scenes that can be measured. I recommend reading his work I link to below.We talk about the book Limits to Growth, I welcome his views though, for the record, don't find it as wrong as he does. I consider its systemic approach essential and didn't view its simulations as predictions so much as learning what patterns our global environmental and economic system could show.I use solar, but don't consider it a long-term solution. I also don't think things like nuclear and fusion work long-term either, but we didn't get to that topic. We'll continue our conversations, though, which I look forward to.Mark's book: The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020sSome of my favorite of Mark's posts and videosMines, Minerals, and “Green” Energy: A Reality CheckThe “New Energy Economy”: An Exercise in Magical ThinkingThe Hard Math of Minerals41 Inconvenient Truths on the “New Energy Economy”What's Wrong with Wind and Solar?How Much Energy Will the World Need?Mark's podcast The Last Optimist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week our guest is Mark Mills, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute who recently authored The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s. In this episode, Mark and I discuss how the latest advancements in materials, machines, and information are unlocking a profound new paradigm represented by the cloud, the impact of which Mark argues has been severely underestimated. As part of this conversation, we also explore the ways such tech will impact automation, governmental regulation, and our on-going tension between climate and energy production. As Mark describes it himself, he's a realist and an optimist, and both of those things are conveyed in this information rich episode. Find more of Mark's work at tech-pundit.com or follow him at twitter.com/markpmills ** Host: Steven Parton - LinkedIn / Twitter Music by: Amine el Filali
The team sits down for a discussion with Mark Mills, as part of the Sonoma Valley Authors Festival.Mark P. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science where he co-directs the Institute on Manufacturing Science and Innovation. He is also a strategic partner with Montrose Lane, an energy-tech fund focused on software.His new book, The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s, has risen to #1 in Amazon's business planning and forecasting rankings. In the book, Mills presents a convincing vision of a coming era of economic prosperity fueled by today's radical advances in technology, data, and the Cloud. He explains how digital acceleration is changing the value of the physical economy and lays out a common-sense argument for optimism in our ability to grow and innovate, drawing comparisons with the tech revolution that drove the economic expansion of the 20th century and the widespread adoption of telephony, cars, power plants, and plastics.Mills' previous books include Digital Cathedrals: The Information Infrastructure Era, and Work In The Age Of Robots, as well as The Bottomless, co-authored with Peter Huber, about which Bill Gates said: “This is the only book I've ever seen that really explains energy.”Mills cofounded Digital Power Capital, which invested in emerging technologies. He has been a technology advisor for Bank of America Securities, and was a director for a preeminent engineering firm that designed power systems for global datacenters. He has testified numerous times before Congress on energy and technology matters.Early in his career, Mills worked in the White House Science Office under President Reagan and provided science and technology policy counsel to numerous private-sector firms, the Department of Energy, and U.S. research laboratories. Prior to that, Mills was an experimental physicist and development engineer in microprocessors and fiber optics, earning several patents for his work.Mills holds a degree in physics from Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Bill spoke with Mark Mills about the prospects of America "going green" regarding energy policy. Mark Mills is a physicist, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering. His latest book is "The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s." You can view Bill's piece for Fox News, as mentioned in the first segment, by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Bill spoke with Mark Mills about the prospects of America “going green” regarding energy policy. Mark Mills is a physicist, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering. His latest book is “The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next […]
A better tomorrow relies on the technology we create today … And physicist Mark P. Mills believes innovations like the cloud will lead us into an economic boom. In this episode, he sits down with host Charles Mizrahi to discuss what conventional wisdom gets wrong about technology, where the semiconductor industry is headed, and how electric vehicles aren't as clean as we think. Topics Discussed: An Introduction to Mark P. Mills (00:00:00) What Conventional Wisdom Gets Wrong (00:01:29) Revolutionary Technology (00:4:01) The Semiconductor Industry (00:10:19) Electric Vehicles (00:13:04) Clean Energy Isn't Clean (00:20:08) The Future of Electric Vehicles (00:28:54) Incentives and Inflation (00:36:12) The 20-20-20 Rule of New Technology (00:43:16) The Manufacturing Sector (00:50:12) Innovation in America (00:56:52) Guest Bio: Mark P. Mills is a physicist, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a partner in energy tech venture fund Montrose Lane. He has written several award-winning books, including his latest (below) on new technologies. Mills' writing has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and USA Today. In 2016, he was named “Energy Writer of the Year” by the American Energy Society. He also served in the White House Science Office under President Reagan, co-founded Digital Power Capital, and was chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies. Resources Mentioned: · https://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Revolution-Convergence-Technologies-Economic/dp/1641772301/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1PCI2KA2E2PE0%26keywords=mark%2Bp%2Bmills%26qid=1645067479%26s=books%26sprefix=mark%2Bp%2Bmills%252Cstripbooks%252C146%26sr=1-1 (The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s) Transcript: https://charlesmizrahi.com/podcast/podcast-season-7/2022/05/03/revolutionary-technology-future-mark-mills/ (https://charlesmizrahi.com/podcast/) Don't Forget To... • Subscribe to my podcast! • Download this episode to save for later • Liked this episode? Leave a kind review! Subscribe to Charles' Alpha Investor newsletter today: https://pro.banyanhill.com/m/1962483 (https://pro.banyanhill.com/m/1962483)
Hour 2 of The Dawn Stensland Show: During a press conference on Wednesday, Governor Phil Murphy joked that he has “never been a marijuana guy” but if New Jersey were legalizing scotch or whisky, he’d be interested. The trailer for an explosive interview between former President Donald Trump and Piers Morgan was released on Wednesday Night. The full interview will air on April 25th. During an interview on MSNBC, former Biden advisor Symone Sanders admitted that Florida did well under Gov. Ron DeSantis during the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, Nicole Wallace accused DeSantis of dehumanizing his political opponents—comparing his tactics to those utilized by Russian war-criminals. Mark P. Mills—Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute & Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences—joins the show to discuss his recent Wall Street Journal opinion editorial, “The Coming Green-Energy Inflation.” Mills argues that as the Biden administration prioritizes the adoption of green energy, materials like copper, aluminum, nickel, graphite, and lithium will continue to skyrocket in price. Lithium, a key component in the battery production for electric vehicles, has seen its price increase by 1000% over the last two years. Can we expand mining to help drive down costs as demand increases? Mills is also the author of The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s. The American Lung Association is reporting that Philadelphia has seen an uptick in particle pollution and, consequently, a reduction in air-quality.
Mark P. Mills—Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute & Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences—joins The Dawn Stensland Show to discuss his recent Wall Street Journal opinion editorial, “The Coming Green-Energy Inflation.” Mills argues that as the Biden administration prioritizes the adoption of green energy, materials like copper, aluminum, nickel, graphite, and lithium will continue to skyrocket in price. Lithium, a key component in the battery production for electric vehicles, has seen its price increase by 1000% over the last two years. Can we expand mining to help drive down costs as demand increases? Mills is also the author of The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s.
Mark P. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is also a strategic partner with Montrose Lane (an energy-tech venture fund). Previously, Mills cofounded Digital Power Capital, a boutique venture fund, and was chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies, helping take it public in 2007. Mills is author of the book The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s (Encounter Books, 2021), and host of the new podcast The Last Optimist. He is also author of Digital Cathedrals (2020), and Work in the Age of Robots (2018). Mills earlier coauthored (with Peter Huber) The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (Basic Books, 2005). His articles have been published widely, including in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, and Real Clear. Mills has appeared as a guest on CNN, Fox, NBC, PBS, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In 2016, Mills was named “Energy Writer of the Year” by the American Energy Society. Earlier, Mills was a technology advisor for Bank of America Securities and coauthor of the Huber-Mills Digital Power Report, a tech investment newsletter. He has testified before Congress numerous times, and briefed state public-service commissions and legislators. Produced by Show-Me Opportunity
Bill spoke with Mark Mills about his new book "The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s." Mark Mills is a physicist, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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What does the future hold? Mark Mills makes the case that a roaring 2020s is arriving, and it won't come from any singular invention but from the convergence of radical advances in the three primary technology domains: microprocessors, materials, and machines. Accelerating this technological revolution is The Cloud, history's biggest infrastructure. Mills new book, The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s is out now. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
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Catch up on what you missed on an episode of The Richard Syrett Show. Managing Editor of Blacklock's reporter, Tom Korski on Bank of Canada's “enemies list.” New Blue Party of Ontario Cambridge MPP Belinda Karahalios on the scheduled end to vax passports. Ruth Gaskovski gives homeschooling advice. CEO of the Women's Trucking Federation of Canada, Shelley Walker discusses major trucker shortages affecting supply for you. Plus, Senior Fellow of the Manhattan Institute, Faculty Fellow at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, Strategic Partner in Montrose Lane, & Author of “The Cloud Revolution” – How the Convergence of New Technologies will unleash the next economic boom and a roaring 2020s, Mark P. Mills speaks about his book.
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Today's episode is a treasure trove of important facts that we all should know about technology, society and the future. My guest is once again Mark Mills, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute - who specializes on science, technology, energy, and future manufacturing technologies - and who has just published The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s Conventional wisdom as to how technology will change the future is wrong. And what is quite wrong is the view that the only technological revolution that matters will be found with renewable energy and electric cars. According to Mills, a convergence of technologies will instead drive a broad economic boom over the coming decade. It will come not from any single big invention, but from the confluence of radical advances in technology's three domains: microprocessors, materials, and machines. At the center of all of this is the Cloud, history's biggest infrastructure, which is itself based on the building blocks of next-generation microprocessors and artificial intelligence. For an optimistic take on what's ahead, Mark dives into this, and more. But we also talk about some of the dangerous dead ends we face if we plow ahead blindly with a promised “green” energy future. As we all know, today's elites are obsessed with climate change and replacing fossil fuels with solar and wind energy and other yet-to-be-invented technologies. But has anyone really thought this through? Wouldn't now be a good time to assess what actually doing this would look like. Mark Mills has thought it through and has a stark message - an inconvenient truth: “There won't be a world powered entirely by wind and solar or batteries. The reason I say that is because it is not possible. We don't have the materials and we can't afford it in either environmental or economic terms. ” To switch from hydrocarbons oil, gas, and coal to wind solar and batteries, the quantity of materials acquired to be extracted from the earth to produce the same unit of energy goes up a thousand percent - that's ten times. Mark jokes that people believe in a new element “unobtainium” with perfect attributes: high energy density, it weighs nothing, costs nothing, and getting out of the earth is easy. “You have to mine stuff, build stuff. You always have to do that. Everything starts with mining.” Take electric cars. The battery in an electric car weighs about a thousand pounds. Most people don't know that the thousand pound battery is replacing a 60 pound fuel tank. To make the thousand pound battery, to fabricate it, ou have to mine and dig up somewhere on the earth, 500,000 pounds of materials. Nickel copper, the manganese, lithium, carbonates, all of that. All of that requires mining equipment and mining machinery, almost all of which is oil fired. This is just one reality. Listen in as Mark also explains the true costs of solar and wind technologies. They are not what you thought. We need to be clear about what we're doing. The most valuable thing in the universe is the time that we have to live on earth. Much of what history has been devoted to is making our time available to do other things which translates into speed and convenience and comforts. And making time always takes energy. We need to stay smart about this and Mark explains how.
The world is in an energy crisis. Ok now that we have that out of the way, let's talk about Mark's book “The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s”. Mark lays out the next economic boom and the accelerated path that we are on. The new technologies being invented and implemented are moving at incredible speeds. The book is laid out in a very orderly method to show that this has happened in the past in the 1920s and is going to be a much larger economic boom through the magnification of the cloud. Mark Mills LinkedInBuy Marks book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Revolution-Convergence-Technologies-Economic/dp/1641772301/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Mark+Mills&qid=1639450537&sr=8-1
When we think of infrastructure, roads and bridges are among the first things that come to mind. But over the past decade, massive investments in warehouse-scale data centers constitute a new kind of infrastructure build up. And that cloud computing infrastructure might be the beginning of a new economic revolution. My guest today is Mark Mills, and we'll be discussing the revolution in cloud computing and how it could lead to a New Roaring '20s. Mark is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. His latest book is https://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Revolution-Convergence-Technologies-Economic/dp/1641772301/ (The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s).
When we think of infrastructure, roads and bridges are among the first things that come to mind. But over the past decade, massive investments in warehouse-scale data centers constitute a new kind of infrastructure build up. And that cloud computing infrastructure might be the beginning of a new economic revolution. My guest today is Mark Mills, and we’ll be discussing the revolution in cloud computing and how it could lead to a New Roaring ’20s. Mark is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. His latest book is The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s.
On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Mark P. Mills, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his book “The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence Of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic […]
On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Mark P. Mills, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his book “The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence Of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s.”