Maybe the following is a bit of a party pooper.
But every time I see something about 'reliable energy solutions' I can't help thinking about one thing.
We are simple with WAY to many people on earth.
Even if magically we nail all the problems, reduce the total power consumption AND garbage waste with 50% (which is heaps!)
Currently the world population is growing with a whopping 83 million each year.
If we don't don't anything against it, this means that in 2050 the world population will be around 9.7 billion pooing, farting, wasting, drinking, eating super apes.
Or 11.2 billion in 2100.
The population at this moment is 7.4 billion people.
In other words, we need to cut at least 30% of all waste (in any form) to be even as we are today in 2050.
That also means, we haven't gained anything extra, to 'safe' our asses (not the world, the world will be fine eventually)
There are some ideas and predictions that the growth will go down eventually and even get lower.
Anyway, realistically I don't see how on earth (no pun) we are going to fix 50% of the total waste.
Another thing I don't get is, why the focus is only on this subject, and not the extremely high growth?
I guess because from an ethical point of view it's a difficult subject.
Does this mean all of this is b*llsh*t?
No! As many great scientists already pointed out, there is nothing wrong with making things better, more efficient, more reliable.
On top of that it creates new exciting jobs.
It's only not going to help us in the end......