This article talks about two Google PhDs that spent four years analyzing different renewable energy sources and determined that none of them were viable:
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At the start of RE<C, we had shared the attitude of many stalwart environmentalists: We felt that with steady improvements to today’s renewable energy technologies, our society could stave off catastrophic climate change. We now know that to be a false hope ...
Renewable energy technologies simply won’t work; we need a fundamentally different approach.
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Renewable energy 'simply WON'T WORK': Top Google engineers
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What’s needed are zero-carbon energy sources so cheap that the operators of power plants and industrial facilities alike have an economic rationale for switching over within the next 40 years ...
Incremental improvements to existing technologies aren't enough; we need something truly disruptive.
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The author writes that the PhDs do not know what will work, but explains that nuclear power will, and states that a grand total of fifty-six people have died in nuclear accidents, which is less than any other energy technology, including renewables.