Energy myths and illusions

… Energy sources available to the human race are unlimited, however much we use. Nuclear energy is all about politics. But it can provide enough electricity to warm and light the whole planet forever, and even to colonize space as well. Fusion, now being explored, seeks in effect to encase in a bottle the entire energy equivalent of the sun. Even traditional energy resources, like coal and oil and gas, exist in quantities so vast that it would take centuries for the world to run out, if ever, despite the repeated claims if some scientists that we have “reached the peak,” or are about to reach it.

By David Howell, a former British Cabinet minister and former chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. He is now a member of the House of Lords.

Japan Times