Over-regulating Nuclear Energy
Fossil fuels have allowed humans to end the poverty that necessarily accompanies the use of low-energy-density resources such as sun, wind, and flowing water.
The energy density of available resources is key to understanding the evolution of civilization, as Oxford University fellow Dr. Wade Allison points out in The Energy Revolution Must Be Nuclear.
“A measure of the utility of a fuel is its energy density,” he explains. The greater energy density of fossil fuels powered the Industrial Revolution that provided humans with more abundant energy, allowing progress beyond a survival mode of living for the majority of the population.
“Access to these powerful energy sources has shaped most economic and political developments over the last 250 years,” Allison writes. “In that time, the world population has increased eightfold, life expectancy has doubled, and people’s standards of living have improved dramatically.”
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