Yet one more breathless announcement of renewable energy, green and clean, just around the corner. Of course it costs about five times as much as we're using, and they can use a few billion more for development to make it economic, but there will be Green Pie in the Sky Bye and Bye. Somehow if it's green we need not pay attention to the laws of physics, nor yet of economics. It's Green! Isn't that enough? Well, no. Pollution control, like economic growth, is primarily a function of the cost of energy. As I pointed out in A Step Farther Out, with cheap energy we can take pollutants apart, down to their constituent elements if that's needed; there is never a pollution problem if you have enough cheap energy.
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There you go.
Personally, I run over people riding bicycles, since it raises the general IQ.