After four weeks of the first Wonkblog CrowdSourced, there is a consensus! Asked to explain what you view as the most promising energy source for America’s economic and environmental future, you favored one answer, heavily, above the others: Low energy nuclear reactions, or cold fusion.
CrowdSourced: Wonkblog readers are really excited about cold fusion
Personally I prefer a mixture of windmills, solar panels, tofu and pixie dust.
Definitely Pixie dust!
What’s their next poll? WHat income group do you want to be in, poor, middle or rich?”
I guess they are taking lessons from government studies.
I’m going with Rich and a Pixie Dust mine. It’s the old belt AND suspenders mindset.
KevinK
Unicorn Farts–the only way to fly.
Wishful thinking and unicorn tears!
Unicorns on treadmills.
Our future energy needs is not going to be a problem We have nuclear, shale gas, coal and whatever new technology / better techniques for the rest of this century. I sleep well at nights.
But the UK is not doing so well.
Having adopted a climate program similar to what the US House passed in 2009, the UK is at just the very beginning and super easy part of a 40 year trip into energy and economic oblivion. Maybe it’s poetic justice and self-loathing for their centuries of imperialism, and now they will become an international pygmy.
Anyway, the news:
(Reuters) – Britain’s risk of electricity blackouts by 2015 is more serious than previously thought, regulator Ofgem warned on Thursday.
The country’s spare electricity supply margin could fall as low as 2 percent in 2015/16, down from around 14 percent currently. Last year Ofgem gave an estimate of 4 percent.
“Electricity supplies are set to tighten faster than previously expected in the middle of this decade,” Ofgem said in a report, adding that the chance of supply disruptions would rise to one in 12 years in 2015/16 from one in 47 years now.
Britain has seen a vast number of power plants close and being mothballed due to emissions-reduction policies and the loss-making economics of gas-fired power plants.
That’s a perfectly logical reason to kill coal and oil
sarc/off