I spent the first part of my Engineering career working as a hardware Engineer designing and building the first examples of digital electrical power meters. At that time the main target was industrial electrical power metering, but it quickly moved to domestic power. There were many figures formerly involved in large nuclear power station implementation projects, working afterwards in executive positions in the company I worked for. The owner was one, he lived in a large house in Devon, with a seven acre garden. He was in his seventies. They all were, these executives. I liked them and got on with them, aspiring to be like them one day myself.

But since then, working in industry up to board level myself, I have seen so many things which really opened my eyes to what it is all about.

It is about biting off as much as one possibly can, to make as much of a nest-egg as possible, then retiring out of trouble into a safer role perhaps owning and running our own company, or maybe working for that of a friend.

The design life of nuclear power station is such that a whole career can be based on one project at senior level, but no longer.

I do not believe that is a coincidence. It is designed to supply the owners and builders with maximum revenue over its working period, and then, just before end of life, all retire out of trouble, because at end of life is when the trouble starts.

At best, it is shut down on schedule, but then never actually decommissioned, since the funds orginally budgeted for that are long gone. In truth the decommissioning is heavily underestimated, because everyone who is expecting to be involved in the development and lifetime of the plant knows they will be out, "before the shit hits the fan".

This became apparent in the eighties.

That is the reason it hit a brick wall, if you ask me.

Now most of the original culprits are all gone, we want to go all through that learning loop all over again, well, I have news for you, the money won't last that long.

The inflation we are seeing is due to solar product being received and put to use, yet not monetised. Therefore as solar scales up, despite being seriously undervalued as described, money is increasingly becoming less representative of the actual product of value being put to use, since in the end it is the product which is of value, not the money.

When money is finally issued on it, probably within a year or so, as will be necessary to save millions, the illusion of low value in solar will be burst, and the remaining community solar backed by hydrogen will be implemented very quick, with those funds issued reflecting previously received solar product.

So, less than a year to Kardashev Money, and less than 18 months after that to 100%+ solar, it seems to me.

After that, we will look back on the nuclear years as the dark ages, I bet.