Reply #9: Two points [View All]

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1) Renewables are also waiting to benefit from more standardization and economy of scale.

2) These mostly look like an attitude problem, wishful thinking, or both. The comment about payback isn't bourne out by history. The fewer disparate factions there are which can deploy the Ultimate Provocation (the one which demands instant unthinking retaliation), the less large-scale war we are likely to suffer. That kind of cold, statistical outlook is how climate change is predicted in the first place.

Even as nuclear fission plays a role in mitigating GHGs, it seems probable that it also promotes the development of new eco catastrophes by propping-up careless consumption patterns.

There are also the caustic effects of needless double-standards and paternalism administered militarily on a global scale: With energy becoming a critical issue, who are we to determine who can and cannot live high on this economic lifeblood?

Finally, much of the world is still without electricity. Yet as villages electrify, they are increasingly turning to solar and wind inserted into the traditional village. Why don't they want power grids and centralized power stations? Answer: They're not seeking heavy industry or to emulate 1890s USA, so why spend vastly higher sums on electrical lines when a few clusters of PVs wlll do? Many of them prefer village life with cellphones and an electric irrigation pump. These people are creating a different way of life that WE will be learning from before long.