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>https://nitter.it/AJiazhang/status/1542132547009875975
>To anyone who thinks we’re 5 years from a revolutionary energy source sweeping in and leading us to post scarcity; I must urge you to read predictions from 1965, 75, 2000, etc. We have always been five years from an energy Revolution. Please understand our society…
>is essentially a one trick pony that has been running almost exclusively on hydrocarbons since our first stage of industrialization. The share of the worlds energy from nuclear has actually decreased since 1985. The reason for this that no one will tel you is…
>prohibitive cost. The responses will always be ‘BUT ITS THE GOVERNMENT!’ Okay then why hasn’t Russia or China or Iran completely nuclearized? Once again nuclear power is a money sink that only makes sense for countries that want a nuke weapons program/proto-nuke weps program.
>Green energy is (a) intermittent and only reasonable for the electric grid (fraction of our energy use) but (b) is essentially accounting fraud.
>Green energy is basically china uses massive amounts of coal to produce energy intensive technologies like PV cells…
>then we ship it over here and call it green energy. It is double counted as coal burnt by china and then green energy for us. The actual ‘net energy’ from solar is probably negligible but is done simply as an expensive way to receive government subsidies.