Crazy Like a Visionary - City Journal
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future , by Ashlee Vance (Ecco, 400 pp. , $28. 99). I am an unlikely fan of Elon Musk, the flamboyant, Steve Jobs-like (some would say Tony Stark-like) entrepreneur behind SpaceX, SolarCity,... Musks two governing passions, he has said repeatedly, are sustainable transport to battle global warming and finding a way to make mankind an interplanetary species, beginning with a space colony on Mars. You can never be Green enough, Comrade, and if the data show a 20-year hiatus in global warming (so much for Michael Manns infamous hockey stick ), thats no reason not to insist that capitalist powerhouses like the United States drastically... No, when it comes to energy, I often quote, sometimes with attribution, the Manhattan Institutes Robert Bryce : what the world needs now is cheap, abundant energy, period, full stop, end of discussion. Then you need economic growth, and to achieve that you need energy, which at the moment means you need fracking. Source: www.city-journal.org
