Elon Musk

Elon Musk: Hello everyone. Well, I must say I'm very impressed with this meeting room is amazing. I feel like I'm in a waterfall, and it's really lovely here. And that was incredible performance.

So I must say I'm quite delighted to be here this morning talking to you and to experience this wonderful event, and everything that, Indonesia has to offer. It's, amazing being here in Bali and Indonesia. So, and I hopefully everyone saw the mangrove forests, because those are very impressive.

It's, several hundred thousand, acres of mangroves, that I think have been replanted, if I recall correctly. So there are a lot of great things happening in Indonesia and the rest of the world. And overall I would say I'm quite sort of optimistic for the future.

I think the. You know, we should never be complacent or entitled, but I do think that if we're not complacent or entitled, that the future will actually be great for the world, and I think we're headed to a bright future overall.

So, and with respect to water, I've always thought, you know, we should we call Earth Earth, but actually Earth is seventy percent water by surface area. So we've technically, I think if aliens came here, and a lot of people think aliens have come here, 'cause they're always asking me, they're always asking me about aliens.

The They would, they would name us Water because we are seventy percent water and only thirty percent land. So the what that means is the potential for solving any given water issue is extremely good because there is so much water. There's obviously desalination required at times and the transport of water, but desalination, as I think most people know, has become very inexpensive, and is,

And so really the availability of fresh water is simply about, energy and transport. So that's, when I talk to even very well-read, very very smart people, in the United States, they will often think, "Well, there's the water crisis is unsolvable."

But in fact, it is, it is very solvable. And with our continuing breakthroughs in the efficiency of of desalination and Anyway, I think we've, we've got a we've, we've got a great water future ahead of us, and I think a great sustainable energy future ahead of us.

As I mentioned, the, because the cost of desalination has dropped so much, if you're just talking about water for individual consumption or water in, say, a hydroponics facility, some kind of, you know, where you're not simply put it, putting it on the ground for crops, but actually have some sort of contained facility that minimizes the amount of evaporation, I think you can basically turn any part of the world green, including the entire world.

So it just begs the question of where does the energy come from? And here's where I think, solar energy is very much, underestimated in terms of its capability. So if you think about what would the Earth be without the sun?