Berkshire Hathaway buys Dominion Energy natural gas assets in $10B deal
To me this signals that Buffett believes that huge growth of cheap and crazy-popular wind and solar generators will continue to be directly correlated with a massive expansion of fracked natural gas (i.e. high-carbon fossil fuel) to back up their intermittency.<p>Fracked natural gas is certainly better than coal in almost all metrics (way less deadly air pollution, arguably less carbon emissions given better pipeline seals&#x2F;maintenance), but it is not compatible with a climate solution because of its high carbon footprint.<p>I&#x27;m always advocating for 24&#x2F;7 low-carbon, low-land, low-material energy (i.e. energy with high power density) like nuclear but it appears that the public simply is not interested. It would help if we could just choose a reactor design and serialize it like the Koreans did to get costs way down.