The Last Optimist
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The Last Optimist is hosted by Mark P. Mills—author, businessman, physicist, contributing editor to the City Journal, and distinguished senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation—and features discussions about inventing our future. Mark's latest book is “The Cloud Revolution: How The Convergence of Emerging Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s.
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Information About Energy is More Critical Than Ever: Time to Reboot the IEA
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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The Imminent Prospect of a Very Bad Idea: A Carbon Tax
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Chemicals, Climate, Carbon, and a Cri de Coeur for Rational Dialogue
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Will Climate Policies Throttle the A.I. Era?
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Hybrid-electric Cars: Faster, Cheaper, Better and Fairer Way to Cut Oil Use
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Artificial Intelligence and its Energy Appetite
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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EVs and the Simplicity Trope
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Harold Hamm, Icon of the Oilfields
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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The Impossible Dream of EVs for Everyone: Part 4 of 4 Inconvenient Geopolitics
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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The Impossible Dream of EVs for Everyone: Part 3 No Salvation from Magic Battery Tech
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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The Impossible Dream of EVs for Everyone: Part 2 The ‘Hidden’ CO2 Emissions
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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The Impossible Dream of EVs for Everyone: Part 1 The State of Play
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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In Praise of (Virtuous) Autonomous Weapons, Part 2: Has Silicon Valley Developed a Soul?
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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In Praise of (Virtuous) Autonomous Weapons, Part 1: The Ethical Dimension of Robots and AI
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Tech Investing: Where the Rubber Meets the Road (Part 2)
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May 30, 2023 |
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Tech Investing: Where the Rubber Meets the Road (Part 1)
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May 22, 2023 |
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EVs and the Myth of Zero Emissions
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Controlling Inflation: Are There “Other Things” Besides Interest Rate Hikes?
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Questions & Objections About the “Delusions” in the “Energy Transition”
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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The Malthusian Invective: Are There Enough Minerals For The “Energy Transition”?
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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What Are You Worried About?
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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The Coming Tsunami of Energy (Transition) Spending and the Physics of Money
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Useful Computing Finally Arrives: ChatGPT, ChatBots & Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Industrial Robots to the Rescue of the Skilled Labor Shortage
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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The Hoped-For Energy Transition is All About Mining
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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2022, The Year of the EV: An Open Report Card for the WSJ’s Dan Neil
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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The Technological Case for Optimism: Part 2 of 2
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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The Technological Case for Optimism: Part 1 of 2
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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The Question of the Decade
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Robots: Key to Growing Shortages of Skilled Labor
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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“Climate Solutions Denialism”
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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“To Infinity and Beyond” – Space Travel, Mars, China, Nuclear Energy
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Congress & the “Groundbreaking” Energy Spending Act: Top 10 Truths to Keep in Mind
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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The CHIPS Act of 2022: A Bipartisan Spasm of Agreement
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Restarting the Future?
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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The Ukraine Chronicles: Weaponizing Technology and Energy
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Markets, Policy and Tech with Ken Fisher (Part II)
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Markets, Policy and Tech with Ken Fisher (Part I)
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Again, Energy, Russia & The Stickiness of Magical Thinking
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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We Come to Praise the EV Not to Bury the Internal Combustion Engine
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Energy & Investing During the Great Interregnum
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Russia and History’s Third Global Energy Shock
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May 31, 2022 |
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The Return of the Very Bad Idea: A Carbon Tax
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May 11, 2022 |
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Another (Realistic) Optimist on Technology and the Future
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May 02, 2022 |
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Tesla Derangement Syndrome
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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A Conversation with Dan Yergin About Energy, Russia, and Reality
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Top 6 Questions About Energy and Technology
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Inflation, Ukraine, Russia & The Energy Transition
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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The Velocity of Technology
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Robots & A.I. in Service of Expanding Non-Russian Energy Supplies
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Ukraine: Technology and the Great Energy Reset
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Unleashing Innovation
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Introducing The Last Optimist
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Jan 22, 2022 |