An industry like solar whose main boast seems to be that it creates more jobs than fossil fuels -- while producing less than a tenth of the energy -- is not sho

An industry like solar whose main boast seems to be that it creates more jobs than fossil fuels -- while producing less than a tenth of the energy -- is not shovel-ready as a replacement right now, today, when we need it. If you require an order of magnitude more workers per watt, you're not ready to scale. By contrast, as far as I can tell, nuclear requires fewer than fossil fuels. Back during the Great Leap Forward, Mao got really into this idea of the people generating energy & doing metallurgy & manufacturing locally. Hipsters would approve. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a leap backwards. edit: my math was wrong; solar is actually worse than I said. Solar costs over 100 times more workers per watt than fossil fuels. https://www.energy.gov/downloads/us-energy-and-employment-report https://www.energy.gov/downloads/us-energy-and-employment-re... https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/?page=us_energy_home https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/?page=us_energy_home