Oh oh. A plutonium powered satellite hit the atmosphere and the SNAP device vaporized.

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4. Reaction to this thread will be reflexive.

It's easier to believe "renewable" energy will seamlessly displace all fossil fuels than it is to look at the statistics and do the math.

The only way to quit fossil fuels is to quit fossil fuels and that would require some difficult choices.

A society powered entirely by renewable energy would look nothing like the fossil fuel powered society this planet's affluent people enjoy today.

The scariest energy resource today is so-called natural gas. People perceive it as a clean fuel, a good backup energy source for when the sun's not shining and the wind's not blowing. Unfortunately there's enough gas in the ground to destroy this civilization and what's left of the natural environment.

The largest industrial projects on earth today are gas extraction and distribution. That will be the end of us, not nuclear energy.