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I haven't made it through 2049 yet. Tough to get more efficient than solar concentrators. Perhaps we'll have more nuclear power by then, but I doubt it'll be fusion. There's no guarantee that nut will be cracked.

What you're misunderstanding about Jordan is that we can appreciate his thought process in arriving at the bottom conceivable level of something without pledging allegiance to all things Jordan for all of time.

In other words, his ideas stand on their own, and I don't need to belong to a Jordan family. I have my own family and I'm much closer to them. In fact, I've never communicated with Jordan at all.

You seem to have contempt for the guy in general; yet not for any particular idea. The biggest complaint you've leveled is that he's careful in what he says so that he can't be snared, which you find to be evidence of someone hiding a nefarious agenda.