Who wants to invest in a plant that will take at least ten years This points out one of the sad flaws of the human race and ultimately, it's probably the one t

Who wants to invest in a plant that will take at least ten years This points out one of the sad flaws of the human race and ultimately, it's probably the one that will lead to our downfall. We're absolute crap at thinking long-term. Look at you, talking about ten years as if it's eons. You're not wrong, of course! Capital doesn't like to invest in projects ten+ years before ROI. But ten years is not a long time. We should be thinking about many, many things at least ten years in the future. Hell, forget ten years. We should be plotting our energy strategy with an eye to the next hundreds of years. Of course, we won't, because we're humans and we really struggle to think past next week. And those of us in democracies have designed a system that literally punishes politicians for thinking beyond the next election cycle.