“Scientific” American?
Nothing but political propaganda. This whole piece is riddled with “hopeful” statements that we may make advances in the future, some things may become possible, other things are “within the realm of the possible” and basically, gee whiz, wouldn’t it be swell if this all works out for the best?
There is no science here.
SA has long been neither Scientific nor American.
SA was hijacked by leftist hacks years ago. They were targeted around the same time the Smithsonian Institute was. Now they are both gone.
I did not like the inclusion of nuclear in non-renewables. Nuclear is one of the cleaner sources of base power (when its too cold for wind and too dark for solar)
There is the nuclear option, you know. Not in the political sense, but in the field of power generation. Nuclear power plants have come a LONG way from Chernobyl, or Three Mile Island, or even Fukushima. The Small Modular Nuclear Reactor designs have overcome virtually every objection of your grandfather’s nuclear reactors, in that they do not go into “China syndrome”, or explode spewing radioactivity in the atmosphere, or have huge quantities of “spent” uranium fuel rods accumulating over time.
But these “green” environmentalists are as superstitious as a bunch of cats, and they cannot be talked into taking a reasonable approach to that resumption of use of nuclear power for generation of electricity.