Thinking With Mitch Joel Revolutionizing Humanity And Tech With Pablos Holman - TWMJ #1033
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Apr 26, 2026 
Pablos Holman, hacker, inventor, and founder of Deep Future, builds deep technologies to tackle hard physical problems. He discusses why software alone falls short. He focuses on energy as the root challenge, reshoring manufacturing with robotics, and using AI to accelerate real scientific breakthroughs. He argues for optimism as a discipline and for working on problems big enough to scare.
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Use Space Solar To Solve Nighttime And Cloud Limits
- Move solar to space then beam power down by radio to eliminate clouds and night as constraints and increase energy yield ~8x.
- Use lower-cost launches to deploy orbital solar farms that deliver reliable everywhere-on energy.
Nuclear Got The Wrong Narrative But New Designs Are Practical
- Nuclear energy was prematurely stigmatized after Cold War fears, delaying a safer route to large-scale clean power.
- New designs like deep-borehole reactors can be cheap, safe, and rapidly deployable to scale clean energy.
Deep Borehole Reactor Company Moving To Commercial Deployment
- Deep Vision built a simple reactor designed to be buried a mile deep in a borehole, providing massive rock shielding and low cost.
- The company fast-tracked approvals and had a commercial deployment schedule with a waitlist for hundreds of reactors.
