...the 16th century.
How's that working out?
Here's how:
June 09: 421.33 ppm
June 08: 421.40 ppm
June 07: 421.42 ppm
June 06: 421.54 ppm
June 05: Unavailable
Last Updated: June 10, 2022
Recent Daily Average Mauna Loa CO2
Nuclear energy operates
continuously and does
not require
flowing water. Historically they were devices for generating electricity, but they need not be, as I have pointed out in many posts, most recently this one:
The Energy Required to Supply California's Water with Zero Discharge Supercritical Desalination. The point is made, that the devices proposed therein would supply multiple forms of energy, not just the thermodynamically degraded form of energy that everyone seems to think is magically benign, electricity.
The idea of storing a thermodynamically degraded form of energy, electricity, as chemical energy (hydrogen, batteries, blah, blah, blah) is thermodynamically, environmentally and ultimately economically insipid. The material requirements are obscene.
The wind and solar industry - the poster boys and girls for this disastrous scheme of so called "renewable energy" - have operated in an environment of extreme enthusiasm, misrepresentation and outright lying while the nuclear industry has operated in a public environment, driven by uneducated journalists, of hostility and contempt. For decades upon decades we've heard the lie, among many, that wind and solar are quick to build and nuclear takes "too long" to build. Yet, after half a century of this rather oblivious rhetoric, the expenditure of trillions of dollars on solar and wind, nuclear energy produces about 30 exajoules of energy every year - as it has done since the 1990s - and solar and wind, a little over ten.
Returning to so called "renewable energy" in all the expensive Rube Goldberg permutations has failed. People are literally dying in the streets around the world from excessive heat.
Unlimited energy?
Get serious. Again, people are dying from extreme heat, right now.
Now. We don't have
time for these fantasies.
We're out of it, out of
time. We need to save what can be saved with stuff that works, on scale.