The Future of Energy Isn't Fossil Fuels or Renewables, It's Nuclear Fusion
Renewables decentralize energy.<p>The whole point is to make it not a commodity you have to constantly buy and transport, but something everyone at all levels of infrastructure could make themselves locally.<p>There&#x27;s a Moore&#x27;s law of solar called Swanson&#x27;s law which is on track for what in today&#x27;s terms we&#x27;d effectively call &quot;free energy&quot; sometime in the nest few decades.<p>Another big idea is that these don&#x27;t require any manual capturing, transport, and feeding of fuel. You install them, make sure they are clean and essentially that&#x27;s it. Nothing more to mine or constantly load into the machine.<p>A robust, fault tolerant, dynamic system of community and family power is the actual future and only dramatically decentralized things like that will ultimately be politically viable and sustainable.<p>They will more likely survive wars and infrastructure collapse; something that a model reliant on a few multibillion dollar plants will never be able to do.<p>Sustainability is not only about ecology but also about decomodifying energy and not having to be constantly reliant on some large group of people maintaining an infrastructure to keep the lights on.