[chongli]

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

We can’t have solar because it shades the desert. We can’t have wind power because it makes noise and strikes birds. We can’t have hydro power because it creates a floodplain. We can’t have nuclear power because burying the waste under a mountain is bad.

Now, I recognize that it’s not all the same person or group making all of these arguments. Still, it’s pretty frustrating because it seems like we have no solutions. We’re speeding down the road toward a cliff and any attempt to steer or apply the brakes is getting blocked.

[mdekkers]

That’s how the big oil industry operates, trying to make all the alternatives even less appealing.

[chongli]

I’m not so sure about that. Maybe, but they also operate much more directly, by buying up tons of renewable energy technology patents and sitting on them.