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Yep. We had decades of time. We put those decades into what amounts to a boondoggle, with wind and solar and vague hopes that efficiency of generation and stora

Yep. We had decades of time. We put those decades into what amounts to a boondoggle, with wind and solar and vague hopes that efficiency of generation and storage technology would just materialize with no real clear path. So we have basically nothing to show for the last 50 years. We could have invested in replacing fossil fuels with extant nuclear technologies and put a huge dent in the problem. And put more research into fusion, which is still subjected to a painful lack of funding that is the biggest roadblock to its eventual viability.

imtringued 7y ago
The problem with renewables is that we are not deploying enough of them. I don't see how you can say that we have nothing to show for the last 50 years. The EU gets 55% of electricity from nuclear + renewables. https://www.dw.com/image/42390018_401.png https://www.dw.com/image/42390018_401.png Germany is playing on hard mode by shutting down it's nuclear power plants and the added renewables far exceed what little capacity they have shutdown so far. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/paragraph_text_image/public/paragraphs/images/fig2-gross-power-production-germany-1990-2018-1.png?itok=glXOK-fm https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/p...