Fair enough, I get it's scary and has risks. It's hard to 'see' the single event in the short term as less dangerous than the everyday damage over the long term

Fair enough, I get it's scary and has risks. It's hard to 'see' the single event in the short term as less dangerous than the everyday damage over the long term, it's normal to want to avoid that. Maybe it's not the right energy source for humans because of how we feel uncomfortable about that, even if it's the correct source rationally. Sort of like nuclear's UX is wrong, even tho functionally it's right. But cognitive biases make that hard to see. Geopolitically the best energy source is probably the one that we have and can sell to you, regardless of the long term damage. So the real risk is stupidity and greed, not technology. Humans can not be trusted! Hahaha :) It would be better to have a risk-free, universally distributed, low cost energy source, but it seems the public has none now. Civilization needs to capture more energy to make progress, but capturing that energy comes with costs, complications and risks. Probably better materials science will let us create a material that converts vibrations in a yet to be discovered by the public field energy into electrical energy.