More Energy, Clean Planet

One hundred years is not ancient history. It is one lifetime plus a little margin. Within one, we can return the atmosphere to pre-industrial carbon levels and repair the damage industrial civilization has done to the planet.

The case rests on a shift that has already happened. Clean electricity is now the cheapest electricity in the history of human civilization, and it is still getting cheaper. That changes the math on every environmental problem we have.

Water scarcity is an energy problem. Atmospheric carbon is an energy problem. So are soil degradation, food insecurity, and the toxic forever chemicals in every American’s bloodstream. Follow any of these crises far enough and you hit the same constraint: the energy required to fix them has always cost more than we could afford.

The world has changed. The hyperscalers building out AI infrastructure are funding fission and fusion R&D to the absorptive capacity of the field, restarting nuclear plants, and signing power purchase agreements at a scale the Department of Energy could only dream of. The same demand just pushed Fervo Energy, an enhanced geothermal company built on directional drilling adapted from the shale industry, onto the public markets in an offering that demand kept upsizing. None of this is happening for climate reasons. The second-order effects will repair it anyway.

More Energy, Clean Planet maps the High-Energy Repair program: ride the AI buildout into transmission to households and the collapsing cost of carbon removal, build new clean capacity at full supply-chain speed and let price retire fossil generation, draw down the two thousand gigatons of legacy carbon already in the atmosphere, and retrofit our infrastructure for the climate we now have. The book sequences this work decade by decade with the ruthless specificity of an engineering argument rather than a policy wish. The founders, scientists, and investors in these pages are already building pieces of it, often for reasons that have nothing to do with climate.

The path forward is more.