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Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

- Vaclav Smil
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Vaclav Smil
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There is no doubt that human evolution has been linked to meat in many fundamental ways. Our digestive tract is not one of obligatory herbivores; our enzymes evolved to digest meat, whose consumption aided higher encephalization and better physical growth.

Economic and technical imperatives - not any preconceived directives - will keep propelling the process of energy transition.

Most innovation is not done by research institutes and national laboratories. It comes from manufacturing - from companies that want to extend their product reach, improve their costs, increase their returns. What's very important is in-house research.

The history of energy use is a sequence of transitions to sources that are cheaper, cleaner, and more flexible.

Innovation usually arises from somebody taking a product already in production and making it better: better glass, better aluminum, a better chip. Innovation always starts with a product.

The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking.

I'm the product of the classical, old-fashioned European education that is broad-based. You want to get your degree in the world, you have to study all sorts of things.

This is the question I'm asking: Do Americans live twice as long because they consume twice as much energy as Europeans? Are you people twice as smart as the average Frenchman? Do you enjoy life twice as much as the average Danish guy? What have we gotten for consuming twice as much energy as Europe? What have we gotten in return?

Most scientific or engineering discoveries would never become successful products without contributions from other scientists or engineers. Every major invention is the child of far-flung parents who may never meet.

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Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.