This is good news, unless we pull viable fusion power out of your asses in the next 20 years I don't see any way to power our world without nuclear power. Sure

This is good news, unless we pull viable fusion power out of your asses in the next 20 years I don't see any way to power our world without nuclear power. Sure, we can replace our current day electrical needs with solar panels, but there are many non-electrical energy sources, primarily chemical, that we utilize from fossil fuels and other mined minerals. Fertilizer for example, it uses a good portion of our world's total power needs, but at the same time we are only inputting a fraction of the power required to produce it via electrical means. There is a ton of potential energy utilized chemically from fossil fuels, which in most cases for fertilizer production is natural gas. The carbon from that natural gas usage ends up in the environment just the same as burning it. There are ways to not use natural gas, we can seperate elements from the air and from water, but that takes like 100x more electrical energy to do. The same for plastics, solvents, and pretty much anything else in the world that relies on some sort of chemical processes, so pretty much everything. So to truly become a renewable powered world, our estimates for the green energy production needed are woefully inadequate. Multiply the amount of solar panels required to power the world by 10, now how reasonable does it sound? Pretty much every industry in the world is limited in some way by energy production and in many cases we aren't going to achieve any truly meaningful gains in efficiencies because of course there is a physical limit. The only power source I can see that can compete with our requirements, nuclear power. Right now that means uranium, in the future maybe we will have thorium or whatever exotic shit, but uranium power production is well known and well studied. The only problem with uranium power production, open pit mining, all the rest are mostly relics from running 50 year old plants and technologies that we haven't been able to replace due to political barriers. The safety problems with nuclear plants are based almost entirely on the fact that we are running the equivalent of Model-Ts for power and criticizing their crash safety, while refusing to build new shit. The Fukushima plant for example was built in the 60s based on designs from the 50s, it was designed basically 15 years after nuclear power was first discovered. And here we are now 70+ years later still using that same old shit. Imagine comparing a car from the 40s to a car built today, they aren't even in the same realm of engineering and safety and the 40s car already had decades of design improvements.