I agree with you on everything except nuclear. The problem of nuclear waste has the potential to be an even worse environmental disaster than the one caused by mineral fuels extraction. It smells off when we can see big business interests doing all possible to distract us from looking too hard at the tail end of the business case of nuclear power.

The end of life costs of a nuclear plant outweigh the benefits it delivers in its lifetime. Not a single one has been dealt with effectively.

By the time it comes to decommissioning any nuclear plant, all of the original actors in the project have long since retired with their pockets full.

Those plants which haven’t already become declared environmental disasters are just waiting to become so in the future.

Solar power looks like the only long term viable power source.

Since that is the original raw source of all energy, it makes sense to tap directly into it.

When all resources are thrown at the development of this, massive economies of scale and further technological breakthroughs will occur, as we see solar projects have a unique ability to compress their own construction timescales and costs by setting up development in such a way that energy from earlier phases “feeds” succesive stages, including R&D.

Countries offset from the equator who are lucky enough to be already economically developed, but not ideally situated to collect solar energy themselves would do well to invest in underdeveloped hotter countries to this end, on the agreement of new distribution infrastructure to ensure they get fair share of the new solar energy bounty.