“If you want your economy to grow like a weed, lower the cost of energy. There is a one to one relationship between growth and energy cost.”
Exactly right.
Which is why adopting Thorium energy should be the preferred primary energy source for the USA. Abundant, extremely cheap, very safe (using LSFR, clean and very efficient.
Problem is it doesn’t give the Pentagon weapons grade plutonium, so it’s been a no-go all along.
Sad, because a few other countries are getting serious about it - not the least of which is China. Nothing against hydrocarbons, but that will never be as cheap and abundant as Thorium.
28 Mar: The Nation: Unproven Allegations Against Trump and Putin Are Risking Nuclear War
“Russiagate” and the Skirpal affair have escalated dangers inherent in the new Cold War beyond those of the preceding one.
By Stephen F. Cohen on the John Batchelor Show
People who learn of Cohen’s views from the John Batchelor Show or elsewhere often ask him, “What can we do?” ...
People could also demand that mainstream print, broadcast, and cable media, which are licensed to serve the public interest, stop boycotting dozens of authoritative experts (not political partisans) who can counter the arguments of the near monopoly of pro–Cold War, anti-Trump Russia-policy voices. Media could start by replacing on-air, in-print former US intelligence chiefs, such as former CIA director John Brennan, who have their own agendas and some complicity in creating today’s dire relations with Russia, with alternative, even opposing opinions.
https://www.thenation.com/article/unproven-allegations-against-trump-and-putin-are-risking-nuclear-war/