So your answer is use the state to force people to pay more for less competitive energy? There isn’t another choice here.
replyThat's what we are currently doing. We are using the state to force people to pay for expensive intermittent renewables.
replyWhere? In every country in the world? Because the world met something like 85% of the energy growth of 2025 with renewables. All regions of the world are seeing massive and accelerating renewables buildout. All forced by the state? Extraordinary claims require evidence.
replyThe state's role is to help shape policies that might help people over a time horizon greater than a couple of years. Often, this means current people are supposed to subsidize the world for future generations. This used to be the societal handshake that let kids have better outcomes than their parents. Somewhere along the way, the average joe seems to have lost sight of that societal contract and is more focused on instant gratification and short term payback.
replyI agree in general, but you may as well be wishing for ponies and unicorns as for change here. Short term economics is the current dominant force.
replyAlso consider that if you’re wrong about the progress of clean tech, and it closes the gaps on storage, the kids “better outcome” is going to be being locked into paying higher energy prices for a lot of their life. (Of course if you’re right it will help them)
Sure but at the end of the day(cade) if my kids end up paying more for green reliable energy it's not a bad outcome compared to the price on betting the farm on renewables/grid update/hopefully seasonal, scalable, cheap energy storage. I'd rather hedge my bets by also investing in nuclear.
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