The internal combustion engine was born.
For 150 years, humanity went on a binge. We learned to pull prehistoric plankton (oil) and ancient ferns (coal) out of the crust of the Earth and set them on fire. We built cities in the desert (Dubai), cars for every citizen (Detroit), and plastics from thin air. in search of energy
But the hangover is brutal. CO₂ in the atmosphere is now higher than it has been in 3 million years. The search for energy is no longer just a hunt for abundance ; it is a hunt for cleanliness . Today, the search has fractured into three desperate expeditions. The internal combustion engine was born