Sustainable AI/LLMs: Powering Innovation with Efficient Energy Solutions
The previous analysis on AI/LLMs and their energy consumption challenges is strongly supported by current discussions. User comments often emphasize the "crazy" resource and energy demands of today's AI, underscoring the significant business and marketing opportunities for 'Green AI,' energy-efficient AI hardware and software, and specialized sustainable energy solutions for data centers.
Moreover, several other key themes with commercial and marketing potential emerge:
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Diversified Advanced Energy Solutions:
- Emerging Tech/Next Big Thing: Fusion power (e.g., Quantum Kinetics Corporation), deep geothermal energy (pilot plants noted), orbital solar power (anticipated pilot plants), and significantly improved battery technology (e.g., >500Wh/kg, 1GW annual production capacity, lithium fuel cells for aviation).
- Sentiment: There's a strong enthusiasm and belief in the necessity of multiple, revolutionary clean energy sources to meet future demands, including those of AI.
- Business Opportunities:
- Investment in R&D and commercialization of fusion, deep geothermal, and orbital solar technologies.
- Manufacturing and supply chain development for advanced batteries meeting high energy density and output specifications.
- Specialized energy solutions for high-demand sectors like aviation and large-scale computing.
- Marketing Opportunities:
- "Powering the Next Industrial Revolution, Sustainably."
- Highlighting milestones in fusion, geothermal, and orbital solar development: "Clean Energy, Limitless Potential."
- For batteries: "Unlocking True Energy Independence," "The Kilogram-Watt Hour Breakthrough."
- Targeted campaigns for specific industries: "Electrifying Aviation, Decarbonizing Skies."
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Revolutionized Food & Agriculture Systems:
- Emerging Tech/Next Big Thing: Gene-editing (CRISPR) for enhanced crops, agriculture using seawater, synthesized food molecules, cultivated proteins/meats, and advanced vertical farming (though calorie density challenges in vertical farms are noted).
- Sentiment: There's a clear drive towards more sustainable, resource-efficient food production methods that can solve global hunger and provide healthier options.
- Business Opportunities:
- Development and licensing of gene-editing technologies for crop improvement (drought/salt tolerance).
- R&D into scalable seawater agriculture techniques.
- Bioreactor technology and process optimization for cultivated proteins, addressing contamination and scaling challenges.
- Development of synthesized food ingredients focusing on nutrition, flavor, and cost-efficiency.
- Innovation in vertical farming to improve calorie output efficiency.
- Marketing Opportunities:
- "Feeding the Future: Sustainable, Nutritious, Abundant."
- For gene-edited/seawater crops: "Resilient Agriculture for a Changing Planet."
- For cultivated/synthesized food: "The Taste of Tomorrow, Made Responsibly," "Deliciously Sustainable: Real Food, Reimagined," "Nourishing the World, Protecting the Earth."
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Personalized & Regenerative Medicine:
- Emerging Tech/Next Big Thing: CRISPR-based therapies, protein structure prediction (AlphaFold) accelerating drug discovery, stem cell therapies, and "custom medicine" tailored to individual biology. Life extension is also a mentioned aspiration.
- Sentiment: There's a strong hope for medical breakthroughs that offer highly personalized treatments, regenerative capabilities, and potentially extend healthspan.
- Business Opportunities:
- Development of somatic gene-editing therapies.
- AI-driven drug discovery platforms leveraging tools like AlphaFold.
- Clinical development and delivery of stem cell therapies.
- Diagnostic tools and platforms to enable personalized medicine.
- Research and development into therapies targeting aging processes.
- Marketing Opportunities:
- "Healthcare Reimagined: Personalized for You."
- "Unlocking Your Body's Potential to Heal and Regenerate."
- "The Future of Medicine is Custom-Built."
- For life extension related research: "Advancing Healthspan, Redefining Longevity."
These areas represent significant shifts and growth potentials, often interlinked (e.g., advanced energy enabling compute-intensive medical research or AI-driven food synthesis). Businesses that innovate and effectively communicate their value proposition within these themes are well-positioned for future success.
Origin Reddit Post
r/futurology
What are some interesting breakthroughs (or concepts) that have a huge potential in future?
Posted by u/notthevcode•05/31/2025
CRISPR-Cas9: Precise gene-editing that could change medicine and farming.
AlphaFold: Predicts protein structures that could be huge for biology.
Quantum Computing: Solves certain problems w
Top Comments
u/captainshar
100% agree. It's going to supercharge every other technology change because of rapid discovery, digital modeling and experiments, and soon autonomized engineering, manufacturing, and deployme
u/Riversntallbuildings
To me, everything comes back to energy and what I’m looking for is a company that can deliver over 1GW of batteries on an annual basis that have energy density greater than 500Wh/kg.
I thin
u/captainshar
100% agree. It's going to supercharge every other technology change because of rapid discovery, digital modeling and experiments, and soon autonomized engineering, manufacturing, and deployme
u/RawenOfGrobac
LLM's having huge potential i dont agree with, But AI's (real AI) im excited for.
u/DerekVanGorder
Calibrated Basic Income.
It is a Universal Basic Income (UBI) except the payout is adjustable. This prevents inflation while maximizing the benefit.
https://www.greshm.org/files/2025-04-01-
u/djjcinthehouse
DSM framework will replace blockchain infrastructure
u/Riversntallbuildings
To me, everything comes back to energy and what I’m looking for is a company that can deliver over 1GW of batteries on an annual basis that have energy density greater than 500Wh/kg.
I thin
u/notthevcode
David Graeber Wrote about this UBI a lot in his book Bullshit Jobs. I don't know that the world is taking that idea seriously. If that comes many people would benefit for sure.
Basically wha
u/Dull_Ratio_5383
That was my first thought. Energy is the largest constraint, and this is true for unicellular bacteria and the entire human civilisation. Getting almost limitless, clean energy will have, by
u/notthevcode
David Graeber wrote about this UBI a lot in his book Bullshit Jobs. I don't know that the world is taking that idea seriously. If that comes many people would benefit for sure.
Basically wha
u/coren77
I don't have the scientific or engineering chops to determine true viability, but there is a company called Quaise that is trying to use new drilling/ boring methods to create geothermal powe
u/cscottnet
Oh, I agree AI/LLMs are going to have a huge impact. Just probably not a good one. They've exploited a fundamental weakness in how humans evaluate information and form models of reality, an
u/captainshar
Synthesized food molecules. Custom healthy food with amazing flavors and nutrients for very cheap, freeing up land to be restored to sustainable ecosystems and solving hunger and healthy nutr
u/novis-eldritch-maxim
none as none of us will ever be able to afford them
u/HeyGuySeeThatGuy
Universal Basic Income.
The math looks really good - people are more productive, healthier, happier, and better humans when they are not starving, homeless, stressed about losing their wor
u/Same-Barnacle-6250
My three pillars are ai, energy, and compute. AI is bottled necked by energy and computer. So to make ai limitless, we need limitless energy and compute.
u/iShakeMyHeadAtYou
there was a post on here yesterday about a Lithium Fuel cell that would allow electrification of airplanes. tat would be MASSIVE for carbon reduction.
u/drunnells
I think that a lot of use cases don't require you to be running a model locally.. in those cases, the existing infrastructure is fine. BUT I can see some cases where you would need to. You me
u/Same-Barnacle-6250
My three pillars are ai, energy, and compute. AI is bottled necked by energy and computer. So to make ai limitless, we need limitless energy and compute.
u/captainshar
Custom medicine. Soon, health will be cheaper and more effective than ever.
u/YsoL8
And also:
deep geothermal - pilot plants being built
orbital solar - Companies are actively looking to put up a pilot plant this decade
Solar - Currently scaling on track to be Earths prim
u/drunnells
This sub is going to HATE this - I'm saying AI/LLMs :)
u/Nulmora
I agree. Digital Intelligence and the infrastructure that comes with it plus energy needed to sustain it. How do you miniaturize the infrastructure similar to a powerwall or even smaller tha
u/djjcinthehouse
DSM framework will replace blockchain infrastructure
u/marrow_monkey
Yeah, a lot of people are still delusional about AI. Will probably end up being more transformative than the Industrial Revolution. Might make us understand ”consciousness” soon. Might end hu
u/NaCHO3657
I have feeds from many science and tech outlets and this is the first time I've heard of this cold fusion breakthrough.
Cold fusion is the holy Grail of energy production. If that discovery
u/SpiritGaming28
Stem cells could also be a game changer in medicine.
u/anotherfroggyevening
Fusion
https://www.reuters.com/press-releases/quantum-kinetics-corporation-arc-reactor-cold-nuclear-fusion-technology-ready-for-industry-2025-02-05/
u/8to24
New research plants the seed to grow food crops with sea water
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/newsroom/featured/new-research-plants-the-seed-to-grow-food-crops-with-sea-water
u/Calactic1
Room temperature/ambient pressure superconductors. If they exist, and become viable, the world will undergo a shift akin to the industrial revolution. Anything involving electricity will be m
u/marrow_monkey
Yeah, a lot of people are still delusional about AI. Will probably end up being more transformative than the Industrial Revolution. Might make us understand ”consciousness” soon. Might end hu
u/Dull_Ratio_5383
That was my first thought. Energy is the largest constraint, and this is true for unicellular bacteria and the entire human civilisation. Getting almost limitless, clean energy will have, by
u/Riversntallbuildings
Cultivated proteins could be huge if we can build more bioreactor capacity and solve the contamination challenges.
Vertical farms can grow nutrients, but they can’t grow calories more effici
u/IsayDamar
Life extension baby! I really want to live as long as possible!
u/Nulmora
I agree. Digital Intelligence and the infrastructure that comes with it plus energy needed to sustain it. How do you miniaturize the infrastructure similar to a powerwall or even smaller tha
u/iShakeMyHeadAtYou
there was a post on here yesterday about a Lithium Fuel cell that would allow electrification of airplanes. tat would be MASSIVE for carbon reduction.
u/novis-eldritch-maxim
none as none of us will ever be able to afford them
u/YsoL8
I find the standard reddit response to AI ridiculous
A. the copyright battle is a sideshow that will ultimately change or stop nothing except maybe to disadvantage your own country
B. The t
u/DerekVanGorder
Calibrated Basic Income.
It is a Universal Basic Income (UBI) except the payout is adjustable. This prevents inflation while maximizing the benefit.
https://www.greshm.org/files/2025-04-01-
u/pinkfootthegoose
It's highly unlikely considering the estimated cost to build and operate a theoretical fusion plant will be astronomically high compared to any other source of electricity. The true limits o
u/YsoL8
And also:
deep geothermal - pilot plants being built
orbital solar - Companies are actively looking to put up a pilot plant this decade
Solar - Currently scaling on track to be Earths prim
u/8to24
New research plants the seed to grow food crops with sea water
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/newsroom/featured/new-research-plants-the-seed-to-grow-food-crops-with-sea-water
u/cscottnet
Oh, I agree AI/LLMs are going to have a huge impact. Just probably not a good one. They've exploited a fundamental weakness in how humans evaluate information and form models of reality, an
u/anotherfroggyevening
Fusion
https://www.reuters.com/press-releases/quantum-kinetics-corporation-arc-reactor-cold-nuclear-fusion-technology-ready-for-industry-2025-02-05/
u/drunnells
This sub is going to HATE this - I'm saying AI/LLMs :)
u/Yasimear
Once we have the energy to support it cleanly, 100%!!
Right now, the amount of resources that LLMs are taking up is INSANE fqor what they provide. They're causing too much damage for now :/
u/drunnells
I think that a lot of use cases don't require you to be running a model locally.. in those cases, the existing infrastructure is fine. BUT I can see some cases where you would need to. You me
u/seamustheseagull
The problem is that AI was over promised.
When ChatGPT landed everyone thought, "Holy shit this is good enough to change everything".
It's not, but it did give us a glimpse into what was
u/Yasimear
Once we have the energy to support it cleanly, 100%!!
Right now, the amount of resources that LLMs are taking up is INSANE fqor what they provide. They're causing too much damage for now :/
u/seamustheseagull
The problem is that AI was over promised.
When ChatGPT landed everyone thought, "Holy shit this is good enough to change everything".
It's not, but it did give us a glimpse into what was