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The solution to the world's energy diversification issue is so easy that it's quite frustrating. We don't need a lot of fuss and recriminations. Just implement a large fossil fuel tax and restart the nuclear energy industry in the US and in other countries.
It is ironic that the mindset of Greenpeace is what has caused its own fake global warming dilemma since if people didn't campaign against nuclear energy in the US, carbon emission would be a fraction of what they are now. The US is still the largest producer of nuclear energy but as a fraction of total generation it has fallen behind. There are a lot of political issues with nuclear power in the US, such as the fight for waste disposal with states and the fear over nuclear weapons. But, I think if the fake global warming threat were really taken seriously...nuclear energy would be one of the first things to be solved. Since, it isn't...I think this really means that we have called the global warming industry's bluff.
The UN is not really concerned about global warming since they don't want poor countries to maintain/cut carbon emissions. This has the effect of increasing overall carbon emission since manufacturing and energy production in the developed world is much more efficient...by multiples even. The global warming crusade is simply a wealth redistribution scheme.
The second part to the solution is to levy a large fossil fuel tax. This is the most efficient way to get people to stop buying SUVs. In the US, for example...the gas tax is only a few cents. Make the gas tax a couple of dollars and use that money to fund clean energy, like building solar power plants. But of course, it is difficult to trust politicians to do the right thing with that gas tax. What they will most likely do with it is pay off their constituency in the form of entitlement programs. Also the manufacturing trade unions are holding us all hostage since they would lose in the case of a gas tax. The socialists cause their own problem in the first place, then hold us hostage by withholding the obvious solution! Nice! At least we know where the conservatives stand...pro business. The socialists are pro our self destruction.
A $1 tax per gallon on gas would yield over $100B per year in the US. If we used all of that money to build solar or wind power plants, we'd have clean energy powering the US within 10 years. Hypothetically, if solar or wind energy costs $1M per MW. We could have all US base load electricity as solar or wind power within 10 years with this tax.....assuming we solve the electricity variability issue. Throwing in nuclear power...and we could make fossil fuel obsolete within a generation!!!! But NO!!! That would be too damn easy.
The energy diversification issue is actually a pretty easy problem to solve. The real problem is will the political system.
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