Lei Zhang
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's most
Mars-like in the planet.
Barren and empty.
Wind blows all year round.
Sandstorms happen often.
In the winter, temperature is as low as minus 40 degrees.
In the summer, it reaches 40 degrees.
It's useless.
but it's my most favorite place.
I come to Gobi with a belief.
I believe this could be the new space for our civilization.
When people see useless, barrenness, emptiness, I see abundance.
Abundance?
If you look at the Bering Desert, it is filled up with abundant renewable energy.
The strong wind and the shining sun, they are infinite and never end.
I found out the important equation between energy and our prosperities.
Two thousand years before the Industrial Revolution,
our global GDP only grew five times.
Why?
Because we are only able to use five times energy.