Currently the only realistic way out of carbon-sourced energy... Already too late to prevent catastrophic climate change but the sooner these new carbon-free sources of reliable energy are coming in the better...
Catweazle
Pierre, I think the most likely "catastrophic" climate change threatening us currently is the coming Solar Cycle 25-induced solar minimum. A couple of degrees of warming is a practically unmitigated benefit, the same reduction is almost certainly going to produce a Global catastrophe of unprecedented proportions. In any case, mankind can no more *significantly* control the Earth's temperature than *significantly* change the time the Sun rises and sets. Note that during the big reduction in the burning of fossil fuels during the CV-19 pandemic the rate of increase of Global temperature has not produced any measurable decrease in atmospheric CO2 concentration.
Mat Noel
Yeah, you guys are either Generation Y or don’t remember, we were supposed to be flooded out or extinct like 40 years ago. Back then it’s was referred to as global warming. The climate will continue to change, regardless.
Pierre Collet
The cause anthropic or helioopic (?) is irrelevant. It is an established fact that gasses such as CO2 or worse CH4 have a greenhouse effect (in one line, they are opaque to infrareds, so supra-red light that goes through the atmosphere from the sun heats the earth that emits back infrared light that is then blocked by such infra-red opaque gasses). So whatever the cause, once more, anthropic or marsopic or whateveropic, our only leverage against what is coming is to try to reduce our CO2/CH4 emissions as much as possible to avoid roasting. We (read humans) can go on with exploiting fossil fuels to get warmer again when the next glacial period comes in 25000 years.
bwana4swahili
Fusion power... Always 50 years from now!
Mat Noel
Very interesting. Maybe we should force disclosure of the Tesla papers
michael_dowling
They are barking up the wrong tree with ITER and other reactors like it. https://thebulletin.org/2017/04/fusion-reactors-not-what-theyre-cracked-up-to-be/ To save out butts,we have to build out solar and wind,which is already cheaper than fossil.
jerryd
It can't compete with that free nuke in the sky! We have the tech for people to run the energy future by making their own and more to sell. China, US would do far better making the simple machines for homes, buildings, businesses need to make their own from solar, wind, CHP, CSP, bio/waste/synfuels And EVs that buy, sell power for profit, That is the future in just 10 yrs in the US as the majority of on demand generation and storage as so many of them that can make power at $.04/kwh and sell it for 2-10x as much. Since the equipment is cheap and 50% cheaper in 2 yrs, utilities can't compete at retail prices.
2Pedantic
Farmers are thinking bumper crops were cool, and now its so cool they can't get anything to grow in June still 3" tall sprouts. Climate change brings on a multitude of changes. 20 21 is the first year I seen it this severe. And its going to take over a decade for Greenland to melt completely. Weird to see it this cool this late.
fasteddie2020
We are well on our way to having clean energy sources. 1. We have fission: we simply need to expand it 2. We have fusion: we simply need to get serious about storage. See here: