Clear thinking on the natural progression of energy technology

ByRod Adams

My friend, David Bradish at NEI Nuclear Notes pointed out a well written essay by Shannon Love on Chicago Boyz titled Fantasy Energy.

Here is a sample from that blog:

I think it important to emphasize that we would need to move to nuclear energy even if we had an infinite supply of fossil fuels and an infinite carbon dioxide sink. Fossil fuels just don’t have the energy density we will need moving into the future. We can no more power the 21st Century with fossil fuels than we could have powered the 20th Century using nothing but wood. Only nuclear power provides energy in sufficient density to power the future.

We should always remember that we can perish by failing to grasp the technological options available to us. The history of technology is littered with examples of societies that suppressed useful new technology for political or social reasons. We can’t repeat those mistakes and survive.

Thanks for the pointer, David. I now have one more author to watch.

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