Overall, we were a bunch of idiots.
My sons tell me that their peers are facing the fact that solar and wind are just expensive fronts for fossil fuels, and that they must have nuclear energy. On my son's applications to nuclear engineering graduate school programs he indicated that his goal is centered on climate change, the challenge his generation faces starkly.
Solar and wind have experimentally proved useless, at the expenditure of trillions of dollars, at addressing climate change. What all the wind and solar plants represent is a massive pile of electronic waste with the bill to come due in 20 or 30 years, when today's babies will be entering their adult lives with an atmosphere containing more than 450 ppm of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide.
This is what my generation is leaving for the future.
We do not need large scale energy storage. That is a material and thermodynamic waste.
We need reliable energy. It is well known how to provide it.
Unfortunately the only hold up to providing it is that there remains an anti-nuclear movement which is exactly, to my mind, the precise equivalent morally and intellectually of the anti-vax movement. It is ignorance that kills people.
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