re: #524 Cato the Elder

None, because they want a brand-new, shiny, untainted, post-industrial world approved by Scare Crow the native shaman, and they want it yesterday.

Same reason reducing coal emissions by 30% or more per unit of energy output is unacceptable. No, we can’t build any “cleaner coal” power plants, because coal is icky and not “sustainable” and reminds us of Victorian England.

The best, as always, enemy of the good.

I just find it interesting that my support is not wanted unless I’m baptised into the faith.

And BOTH of my degrees and my career are in “hard” sciences, and I have done modeling/simulation/test, etc. etc. etc. Which means I do NOT take answers of “the science is settled” very easily.