Well neither is “free” energy, but as opposed to solar and existing technologies, cold fusion is claimed to offer energy so abundant that it’s basically free. Solar don’t work on the scale required to solve the problems that climate change bring (carbon capture, water desalination, replacing every critical earth system we’re breaking) AND maintaining the rising power requirements of modernity.
Solar and wind technologies would have been an excellent basis for building a different type of society, where we also vastly reduce our energy consumtion and rethink modern economy. That would be nice, but those discussions are simply off the table at the moment. People want cheeseburgers, Amazon Prime and pickup trucks. No such things in Solar Punk Utopia.
We already have solar panels to make free energy, but nah.
Well neither is “free” energy, but as opposed to solar and existing technologies, cold fusion is claimed to offer energy so abundant that it’s basically free. Solar don’t work on the scale required to solve the problems that climate change bring (carbon capture, water desalination, replacing every critical earth system we’re breaking) AND maintaining the rising power requirements of modernity.
Solar and wind technologies would have been an excellent basis for building a different type of society, where we also vastly reduce our energy consumtion and rethink modern economy. That would be nice, but those discussions are simply off the table at the moment. People want cheeseburgers, Amazon Prime and pickup trucks. No such things in Solar Punk Utopia.
Exactly. I wager we’re headed toward more of a steampunk dystopia, where the last remnants of civilization choke on our own detritus.