3. Science and Technology
- Capturing and delivering electricity to society is about inventing, building, and perfecting technologies based on what physics, natural resources, and engineering allow.
- All society-scale electricity generating systems have cost and environmental trade-offs.
- The earth's natural resources available to support electricity generation is fundamentally limited.
We must remember, for the present and future, that all 8 billion living on this planet represent a materialistic society, and that electricity cannot exist without the products made from fossil fuels, and that so-called "renewables" cannot make any products or fuels.
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About the Author
Ronald Stein is co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations.
He is a policy advisor on energy literacy for the Heartland Institute,
and the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and a national TV
commentator on energy & infrastructure with Rick Amato.