It happens. Even the tech savvy get way ahead of themselves because it is easy to forget just how time wise difficult it is to get there.
Understand that it is completely possible to produce all energy without burning carbon. It just takes a long build time when you are sure and a longer time when you are not. Thus we have the silliness of burning ethenol which is a backdoor subsidy to farming.
No one has yet built a atmospheric pressure power stack whose output expands exponentially, the bigger you build. I know this will work, but I cannot say it for sure because we have not built it yet. now imagine a cooling tower in a city near you putting out 1000 megawatts. Rather obviously just doing this once and every city on earth will build one.
The hover dam puts out 2000 megawatts and a half sized version of our theoretical cooling tower will drop hugely to 100 megawatts so it is a hard build. AFter all, we want to move up from models which will be useless in this case.
Geothermal is going to get us there as well.
Boris Johnson: I went ‘far too fast’ on net zero – Former UK PM believes he got ‘carried away’ by the idea of renewable energy sources
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/10/05/boris-johnson-too-far-too-fast-net-zero/
By Gordon Rayner – UK Telegraph
Excerpt: Boris Johnson has admitted he went “far too fast” on net zero when he was prime minister, in his most outspoken comments against the policy he championed.
Mr Johnson said he got “carried away” by the idea that renewable energy sources could replace fossil fuels and, as a result, electricity is “too expensive for ordinary people”.
He warned against “junking net zero altogether” but said Labour’s target of making the UK carbon neutral by 2050 should be pushed back.
Mr Johnson makes the comments in a forthcoming book called Prosperity Through Growth, which has Tory peer Lord Elliott, founder of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, and Dr Arthur Laffer, a celebrated US economist, among its co-authors.
Last week, Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative Party leader, announced plans to scrap the Climate Change Act if she becomes prime minister, which was described as a “catastrophic mistake” by Baroness May, Mr Johnson’s predecessor.
It was Mr Johnson who, as prime minister, set ambitious targets for reducing carbon emissions and argued the business case for promoting wind, solar and other forms of renewable energy. He tried to get other countries to agree to legally-binding reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, which even the green lobby argued was over-ambitious.
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