The Future of Energy

It powers our homes, vehicles, and bodies. But what will the next phase of energy look like?

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to the Fuzz, where weenvision the ideas we'll all be buzzing about
in the future. The buzz thefuture, the future, in the future,

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in the future, in the future. While the things we talk about
on this podcast might seem impossible oreven slightly insane, so did electric cars,

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solar panels, and red bull atsome point. And look where we
are now. On today's episode,we're talking about the future, the future
shad of energy. What will poweror our world in the centuries to come.
You're about to find out energy.This is a big one. It's

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a pretty big topic listeners, ifyou haven't figured this out yet. We
always approach our topics, even ifthey seem pretty macro or micro, whatever
you want to look at, wecome at them at a different angle.
And it's not always what you thinkit's gonna be like right when it starts
off. Yeah, I mean,once you go into the future, you
don't know exactly what you're going tofind. You know what you're looking for,

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but you don't know exactly what you'regonna discover or uncover. Yeah.
The time machine is random and unpredictable, good way to describe it. Yeah,
So, as we often do.Let's step into the dime machine.

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All right, can you imagine pureenergy? Chances are if you've had children,
then you have experienced it. Foryears, parents have often been heard
saying, if only we could bottlemy child's energy and sell it, we'd
be rich. And now from themakers of Kaiju Energy Drinks, there's big

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Kid Energy. That's right, BigKid Energy. Harnessing the power of children
and their seemingly infinite source of strength. Utilizing a proprietary technology, Kaiju has
delivered a knockout blow to the energyindustry. Experience intense stamina and a renewed

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like force now available in a wildlypopular delivery system. Get your can of
Big Kid Energy and inhale the effervescence. That's uh, quite the future of

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energy. It makes total sense asa you know, parent, watching children,
especially as it gets warm outside,run around outside, You're like,
give me some of that, right, take some of that. These kids
never get tired. I don't knowhow it happens. We were just talking
about that off air. Yeah,summertime, kid kid energy. Since it's
unleashed, Yeah, it's infinite,it's unstoppable. They don't even need to

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eat food. They don't need torest, they can just go. So
am I to understand this is youget it in a can and you just
kind of inhale it like the airin spaceballs. Yeah, the effort vescence.
Then it can like if you've everhad Werner's ginger ale and you open
it up and then you like coughalmost because of the effervescence. It's that

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kind of thing, and it justgives you a big boost of energy.
So you know, the big questionI got to ask is where do they
get the energy? Where do theyget the effervescence? Where does it come
from? They're harnessing the power ofchildren, So I don't know how they
do that. Maybe it's their essence, their life force, their chi that

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they've figured out how to tap intosomehow. Maybe pure energy. And what
kids are tapping into is some sortof universe life force, right, that's
sort of like all around us,and they figure that out. So we
think of it as like childhood energy, but really they're just innocent, and
that's why they can sort of likepull from the universe and just be like

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forever energized. I don't know,it's my guess. Yeah, I hope
it's something like that and not somethingdarker. Yeah, well, I hope
not either. I hope it's notlike the matrix and they're making them in
like batteries, you know, yeah, or like cloning them and just draining
them training their life force. Yeah, hopefully it's not that. I think

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it's the other. I want togo with the positive outlook on where they're
getting the Big Kid energy. SoI take a hit of Big Kid Energy.
How long is this gonna last me? Do you think? Probably forever?
You know, just like kids.No, I would say probably till
dinner time, till bedtime. Yeah, till the street lights come on,
and you know, usually then you'llhave like a little extra burst right about

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then, and then you'll be likewait when you're laying down, Yeah,
and then you'd be like, oh, then then you'll finally fade. You
know. That's a good product thatI think people would go for today.
Mm hmm, I think so.Do you like the name Big Kid Energy?
Yeah? I think it kind ofdescribes what you're getting. I think
a lot of people could use thataround two or three o'clock in the afternoon

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at work. I think it'd becool too, to like just be like,
give me some of that big kidenergy you know, for some reason,
sounds better than little kid energy.Well, it's big and its energy.
Everything in there is a lot,right, You're getting more. Yeah,
I love it. I love it. What you never asked me,
was kaiju energy drinks? Tell memore? Well, I don't know.

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I mean, I think there's someimplications there. I think there's probably some
potential infringements that had happened. Idon't know. I'm just guessing, you
know, kaiju another word for monsters. Maybe there's something there. I don't
know, because it's just a futureand I was only seeing a glimpse and
that part was very blurry. Yeah, and that's what happens with these futures.

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You just get a snapshot and tryto piece together things from there,
right right. Well, on thatnote, why don't I take you into
my future? Patrick? Take ustake us away? Shad Like Kalgan,
step on in to the time machine. So, arriving in the future here,

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I was surprised to find a futurethat didn't feel much like the future.
Rather, it felt like the past. The world was sparsely populated,
and the dominant form of mass communicationwas radio. That's when I came across
this radio broadcast. Attention, citizens, are you tired of living in the

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dark? Do you want to powerup our world and make a real difference.
Well, listen up, because we'vegot the solution you've been waiting for.
Since the collapse of the nuclear energygrid, our world has been in
dire need of a power boost.The fear not because the Community Energy Network
or SEN is here to save theday. It's simple, folks. Every
citizen must play their part by contributingtheir required annual service to send. And

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let me tell you, contributing tothe energy supply is as easy as flipping
a switch. Just ask glock Metron, who recently completed his annual energy contribution.
I feel great after contributing my energy. That apparatus hardly left any scars,
and I already feel like my oldself again. I got to lay
down the whole time, and youget an endless supply of energy drinks,

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though it's sometimes hard to drink yourquota. They also have lots of old
books and magazines. One day theyeven brought in a violin player for us.
See, folks, it's not justa duty, it's an opportunity to
recharge, both literally and figuratively.Plus, you'll be helping to revitalize our
civilization. Did you know that,given enough fuel, just one hundred people

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can power a major city for upto five months. Now that's what I
call teamwork. But wait, there'smore. By serving your energy time now,
you're not only avoiding a send draft, you're also making a real difference
in the lives of your fellow citizens. Imagine your family sitting down to dinner
under the warm glow of a lightbulb powered by your own energy. Now
that's the legacy to be proud of. So what are you waiting for?
Join the community Energy network today andlet's light up the world together. Remember

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when it comes to energy, everyrock counts. Visit your local send station
today and do your part to powerour future. So that's the broadcast I
heard again. You know, gotto put the pieces together a little bit.
Don't have all the context there,but you get an idea of what's

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going on in this future from justlistening to that broadcast there. So in
this future, they are the sourcesof energy. People are People are the
sources of energy. They are basicallyfueling their own power. They don't they
don't have any more energy they're relyingon people to do it, and it
seems like fueling them with energy drinks. Who knows, maybe it's big kid

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energy. If these people are guzzlingas they're you know, getting drained of
their energy to put the lights ondown the road, So they're using kid
energy to power adult energy to powerthe grid potentially potentially the way. Yeah,

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yeah, if it is the same, it's really interesting. I like
the idea of it being almost likepost war effort, you know, like
this timey, I don't know,we gotta all, we gotta all do
this together. Yeah, we're inthis together. It's your duty. It's
a duty, it's as a citizen, and it seems like you'd probably have

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to do that because it sounds alittle bit like maybe this wouldn't be something
you'd want to just do. Youknow, you need a little marketing push.
So we don't really know how theyget the energy though. No,
there's mention of the apparatus, youknow, and that quote in there,
but that's all kind of we getthere. So people are going to this,

(10:31):
you know, this energy station beinghooked up to some sort of apparatus
with others, and you know they'repulling energy from them somehow out of these
these machines. Interesting fact about bothof our futures a little vague in how
they're getting the energy. It's alittle a little bit foggy. But and

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it's also based on you know,energy taken from humans, right right,
m h. Yeah, we arethe source and then somehow giving it back
to humans in some way. Well, we're always the taker, aren't we.
Yeah, the giver and the taker. We are the giver and the
taker. I like that. Ialso like they have their sen network,

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the Community Energy Network. Yeah,yeah, yeah, you imagine it has
to be a nationwide effort. Allour power that we had before has collapsed,
so something has happened. I don'tknow how many states are left,
how many cities are left, butI imagine there's multiple stations throughout whatever cities
are left that are powering local areasand they're somehow, you know, communicating

(11:39):
with each other. This is howwe set things up, you know,
as humans do. Find a wayto organize. Yeah, let's create a
name for the network. Let's getan acronym going. Let's get a marketing
campaign together to get people on board. Radio broadcast, you know, classic
things people do yeah, time andtime again. Maybe who knows, Maybe

(12:01):
they learned from whatever they could findin a book or something that's left,
you know, after TV and Internethave dissipated in some way. But the
key is there's something that's orchestrating allthe movements of this network, some sort
of puppet master is pulling the strings. If that's what you're getting at.
I mean it does seem like aversion of dare I say, the Matrix,

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but basically like a campaign telling people, you know, we are using
your energy. Yeah, it's nota trick. People know what's going on.
Yeah, you're not like putting blinderson them, making them think they're
in this world. Then they're reallyjust big batteries. You're just basically telling
them we need you as a battery. Yeah, you got to be a
battery for a while, or elsewe got no power. Yeah, and

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you want your luxuries, you're gonnahave to phoning up a little of that
life force you got in your armor wherever it is. I don't know
how they're getting it, what itis, How is it going back into
the grid. We'll leave that tothe future to figure that out. Yeah,
we don't want to know where theconnection is made, we probably don't
want to know. I mean,you're going to have to figure out another

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way because I don't like any ofthe options presented to me. Oh yeah,
yeah, that's that's a that's areally interesting future. So other than
that, there's no campaign really titlefor that, not that I know of.
You know, I just came acrossthe radio broadcast. That's all I
got. There could be more,or maybe there'll be more to come,

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but as far as I know,this is it. It's just, Hey,
this is the way we're reaching peoplethrough radio. Let's get this message
out. It's a psa of sorts. Yeah, yeah, I like that.
Well, I mean I don't likeit, but you know, it
is what it is. Yeah,between those two things, you know,
I think we see the future ofenergy is really if we're if we're just

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being honest, it's us, Weare the future of energy. It's on
mankind's shoulders. Yeah, yeah,I think that's a lot. I think
that's a lot to take in.Hopefully, hopefully, you know, you've
got a glimpse of the future.You know what energy is coming down the
pipeline. And like I said atthe beginning, we don't always know what
we're going to get in the future, but it's it's always a little different

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than what you plan, which youthink you're going to get in a podcast
about the future of energy, sohopefully you were surprised by the unique approach.
Always a twist, always a littlewrinkle, you know, makes you
appreciate your energy a little more.You got today, I think, yeah
we should, we shouldn't take energyfor granted, or maybe we should because
in the future we can just chuga big kid energy and then get it

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all back. Yeah, unleasten untildinner time. Well that's all for this
episode of The Fuzz. Tune innext time for more of tomorrow's Buzz.
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