in my estimation, political opposition against nuclear is so strong in the west that it will be next to impossible to build new reactors. I'd be really surprise

in my estimation, political opposition against nuclear is so strong in the west that it will be next to impossible to build new reactors. I'd be really surprised if there a net gain in fission reactors in Europe or the US. The ongoing shift away from coal is powerful - environmentalists push hard and some cities close to coal plants became too dirty to be livable. "Coal-to-gas" is a central piece of China's energy policy. Energy storage, transportation and space for on-shore wind puts some limit on the renewable-build up; Germany's number of active wind turbines might actually decrease in the coming years. Take the above three aspects together and combine it with an ever richer and energy-hungry humanity and I believe gas and oil demand will be higher than most want to believe. Even if passenger cars are shifted to electric: air planes, ships, freight trains and most importantly, trucks still run on oil. Consider how most passenger cars spend most of their lives being parked, in contrast, commercial trucks move as much as possible,