Environment & Energy

I would deny the authority of anyone to assert what every energy expert thinks, because I read broadly on energy science, having spent much of my free time doing so.

There are many people who have raised questions about so called "renewable energy" and its material and land use. I've probably referenced hundreds of them here over the years

Even the antinuke Benny Sovacool, who advocated ripping the seafloor apart for minerals for this junk has begun to question himself. Recently he discovered that the California desert is actually a vibrant ecosystem. I found that surprising, because he's generally an insufferable ass in my opinion.

There is however, I agree, no panacea. It is too late for nuclear energy to do what it might have done to save what is left to save or restore what might be restored.

This world, the burning world in which we live, is the final monument to the success of antinukes. People like my son are working to pick up the pieces.

My opinion which is not subject to reversal by whining, is that nuclear energy, invented by the finest minds of the 20th century and vilified by some of the smallest minds of that century and this, was, is, and always will be, the cleanest, if imperfect, form of energy there is.

No amount of chanting at this point, at the end of my life, is likely to dissuade me from this view, developed after decades of reading and thinking for which I will not apologize.