Blue Sky Limousine

I was reading Megatrends the other day, an old ’80’s copy, and it was talking about how Nuclear Power used to be touted (before the book was written) as the one and only necessary total solution for our energy woes. Megatrends went on to say that the best solution would instead be diversification.

A few months ago, I think McCain was talking about nuclear power as a powerful solution for our current energy problems. In a recent speech, though, I heard him lay out his plan for diverse fuel sources, and he specifically said that no one effort will be an end-all solution to our big problem. But a combination of efforts would itself provide the solution.

I thought it was interesting that a shift that had apparently taken place 25 years ago seemed to have been recently repeated.

I was of the mind that if an undertaking wasn’t going to solve our issue 100%, then why bother? But now I see we’re going for a cumulative impact that requires many different undertakings to be pursued simultaneously.