Bitcoin, Unleashing an Ocean of Energy with Nathaniel Harmon

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Nathaniel Harmon is an oceanographer, Bitcoiner and cofounder of OceanBit. In this interview, we discuss how an old technology deriving energy from ocean temperature differences can provide unlimited renewable baseload energy, and Bitcoin’s vital and symbiotic role.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 Living in Hawaii
00:24:55 Climate change & energy transition
00:33:42 Climate change discussion in the Bitcoin community
00:43:30 How carbon slows Earth reradiating energy
00:50:58 Hawaii’s renewable energy problem
01:00:52 OTEC: benefits, limitations & Bitcoin’s vital role
01:12:22 The full cycle integration of OTEC & Bitcoin
01:19:18 Largest untapped baseload energy supply in the world
01:26:31 Ocean floor mining
01:38:07 OTEC & ocean mining
01:44:15 The Kardashev scale
01:54:10 Seasteading; space colonization; investment in OceanBit
02:03:35 Debating climate change & seeking truth

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“Where I think the real valuable conversation is, is not debating the science because again, I am a scientist, and I can back that shit up with fucking receipts. And that’s not going to be a fun debate for anybody. What’s the fun debate is ‘What do we actually do about it?’”
— Nathaniel Harmon

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