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Yea, and I wonder how much our need, at a cultural level, for progress will factor into this. If we feel like we need to progress and can't go "backward" with
by maegul 4y ago
Yea, and I wonder how much our need, at a cultural level, for progress will factor into this. If we feel like we need to progress and can't go "backward" with our energy technology, there may just be an irrational impetus to make it happen.
Solar and wind etc may just feel too "primitive" and nuclear too old and toxic and Chernobyl. Fusion though, once there's enough buy in and enough of a sense of it being doable, would fit our expectation of technological progress.
- pmontra 4y agoCulture bends to circumstances. When or where people can't cook or stay warm using the power sources they are accustomed to they go back in an instant to old ones. Logging and campfires, stoves, etc.
- ehnto 4y agoThe practical reality is that solar and wind are still getting deployed en masse, people who want electricity don't really care what how science feels about progress etc. They just want their lights to turn on and for cheap. Since renewables are currently cheap, that's what we're deploying a decent amount of (depending on geography of course).