https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/the_energy_solution_that_should_make_everyone_happy.html
Fake science is a plague that inhibits the advance of the economy and causes vast sums to be wasted going up blind alleys. Fake science is promoted not solely by crackpots. Scientists are in the game, too. If I went through the long list of fake sciences, I’d probably offend every reader. So I won’t. For the argument here, I need to mention only global warming, nuclear radiation, and renewable energy. Personally, I think global warming is fake science. But whether it is or is not fake does not matter for my argument. What I am going to suggest will solve the global warming problem if there is one.
Nuclear radiation has been the target of a long running scare story. Yes, a big dose will make you sick or kill you. But the evidence is that small doses are harmless or beneficial. This is important because society will not accept nuclear power if it is terrified of nuclear radiation, even though the radiation emitted by nuclear power plants is microscopic. The argument for the danger of low-level radiation is demolished easily. You only need to observe that elephants are not suffering greatly from cancer, even though they have vastly more cells that are suspectable to radiation damage. There are scientific studies that back up the elephant story completely.
Renewable energy is a crackpot invention of the environmental Left. Supposedly, renewable energy uses sources of energy that will not run out, anytime soon, like the sun. Renewable energy must not emit CO2, because that might cause global warming. But the renewable energy proselytizers can’t stick to their story. Hydroelectricity is obviously renewable, but it is excluded because the environmental Left hates dams. Geothermal energy, using the heat in hot rocks underground to generate electricity, is considered renewable, even though the hot rocks frequently cool because the heat is used up. The “fuel” runs out. Wind and solar are loved by the environmental Left, even though they are expensive and brimming with serious problems. Nuclear is hated and not considered renewable, even though it emits no CO2, the fuel is potentially inexhaustible, and there are no noxious substances coming out of smokestacks.