RIAZ concludes:
All these sources of energy do exist, (almost) everyone knows, but the orders of magnitude are not at the rendezvous and (almost) everyone pretends to forget it. Without being a polytechnician, with a simple calculator, this fact is easily established. Without prior reduction of the need (and we can do it without tightening the belt) this option is a stalemate.
Stalemate that is not exact,
saw the energy that sends us the sun (even just on our car parks and roofs) and
the vastness of our creative technological possibilities, that negawatt and RIAZ ignores and forgets !!
Our past and our history of humans prove it repeatedly:
There are more than 10000 years, as hunter-gatherers, it was a deadlock considering that it was impossible to make men live more than 1 for some km2 (like some current wild tribes of equatorial forests, suppressed by all of us) :
also
we have invented farming, and our population has exploded (probably blocking a new glaciation according to some) !!!
In the 70 years the disaster was declared for the year before 2000, more oil, while it is still flowing, and it launched us in the nuclear, a madness, that continues.
Given the vastness of our technological potential,
we must innovate, be creative, to move to effective solutions in the long term, making the best use of solar energy, in all its forms, wind,
thermal stored in the free earth in solar superficial geothermal, as well for the
winter heating with summer heat, only for
to make high temperature concentration solar electricity stored underground, a bit like a volcano and reused at night and winter, for electric generator, perfectly possible, if the spirits get used to it, giving up the expensive follies of ITER (which will still not work in 50 years) and nuclear EPR priced already doubled, with always a risk of inevitable disaster sooner or later, emptying a whole uninhabitable region, incultivable !!