My plan, from a European perspective, would be for the EU to build a couple hundred new nuclear plants in ten year. France built almost 60 reactors between the seventies and the eighties so I believe it’s certainly possible with more modern tech. So by 2030 the EU has tons of cheap energy.
Cheap energy makes the following possible:
- carbon capture for negative emissions
- desalination plants for drinking water from the sea during heat waves
- vertical farms so farming is decoupled from the weather
- electric planes, cars and boats
- production (and worldwide export) of green hydrogen for industrial use
- electrical heating instead of gas
Bonus:
- export of all the above technologies once EU mastered them
Ambitious? Very. Difficult? Yes. Doable? I think so.
To me this sounds like a better solution than just trying to live like it’s 1940 again.