How to Turn the GOP Green

Given the impossibility of getting more than a very few people to dial down their energy intensity, probably need to think about nuclear. But if there’s anything we’ve clearly demonstrated, it’s that we are not very competent at storing the waste. Maybe thorium reactors will be better. Otherwise, we’ll trade temperature for radiation and be having a different crisis in a generation or two.

Replace all the coal plants with nuclear across the world. All the countries with their shifting politics and conflicts. Now picture managing the fuels, reactors and waste products competently, securely and reliably.

I genuinely think it’s more likely that we have a prosperous colony on Mars first. And I don’t think much of that.