2025-01-11
Nick Hubble discusses the power sources of the future, and whether the grid will still be providing our power in the future.
Net Zero CO2 has come to mean net zero power, which would mean a far smaller population able to subsist off its own land. That isn't what we have become accustomed to, nor is it acceptable to the population at large.
So failing the elusive zero-point energy, or the nuclear fusion that we are still being assured is "just around the corner" (as it, like the cure for cancer, has been for around the last 50 years - just bung us a few squillions more dosh and we'll be wheeling it out in no time), how is our power sourcing likely to evolve from here?
Fortune and Freedom has some suggestions.