Andreas Thiel
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True to some extent, but I keep talking to very smart people and there are no simple solutions....
It is our job to find green solutions to energy problems. Just like Elon Musk is trying to do (or sell).
Just because something is not pragmatical or convenient, does not mean it is true.
Climate change is real. Burning fossil fuels is really unsustainable (whether it is convenient to burn them or not)
So yes, shutting down fossil fuel plants was correct.
What was done to replace that gap was wrong in majority.
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Politics would play an important role no matter what and collaboration across companies is required, which free markets are incredibly bad at.
A single entrepreneur can't do much.
In science, they went down the wrong paths with nuclear energy. Even if we'd commit to the promising ones now, it would take at least 30 years to get to a point where we can create all the energy we need with nuclear power plants.
Your "reactors that do not create waste that we already have" are an extreme oversimplification.
Scaling up hydro is an option only when the "fuel" can be produced sustainably. How would that work?
Ursula von der Leyen says wind power alone will solve all out problems soon. Last time I checked, Germany could not be autonomous in winter with solar and wind power combined, even if all the theoretically available space was utilized.
I too hate it when people say sustainability efforts is for hippies and climate change is not an issue.
The free market did not fix the problem automacially, so it makes sense that some people think a top down approach is needed.
But obviously destroying the whole industry of a continent only looks good on paper.
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