As long as the world was dependent on fossil and uranium fuels for energy supply, Japan was a resource-poor country. On the other hand, when technologies are economically available to harvest renewabl

was?

Essentially means nought - because as recently as this week the electricity supply monoliths (tepco & co) have decided to not accept energy from renewable sources.

One industry spokesperson said yesterday that solar energy production is unstable so we can't accomodate it. But no comment when the non-acceptance included energy from private thermal sources available 24 hours a day 365 days a year.

Too much is invested in their nuclear dream and control - can't bear the thought of change outside their sphere.

Wind, Solar: intermittent. If scaled to supply a big slice of Japan's power they need massive land area, and enormous and expensive storage facilities.

Biomass: burning vegetation.

Geothermal: in reality, only about 0.7 GW extra easily addable. Brings the geothermal total to 1.2 GW - one nuclear reactor's worth.

Wishful thinking.

The nuclear disaster will take more than 100 years to try and clean up, and will eventually cost more than ¥50 trillion

And given that TIJ! the above estimate will pretty much be guaranteed to be off by what a factor or 3-4times, perhaps more....................just look at the 2020 Olympics.............the future is DIM here, perhaps literally unless we get some REAL alternatives for energy!

I totally disagree. Common sense is warranted here.

Japan is fairly resource rich right now. Methane-hydrate is the near-future of Japan's energy usage and exportation.