G7 water down key pledge on ending fossil fuel financing abroad

They will buy shares in energy companies then change the rules.

Nuclear is the cleanest, densest, energy we have going forward. Environmentalist have finally realized that wind turbines are killing endangered birds and relocating desert turtles so land can be cleared for industrial solar power is crazy. 1M bats/yr are killed by wind farms too. Seeing an endangered bird burned to death by solar concentrators at industrial solar-steam plants will make any one sad.

Germany is the world leader in solar and wind. They spends nearly 2x what France spends (DE: 30 cnts/kWhr vs FR: 16 cnts/kWhr) and are much more dependent on oil fuel. Why? France is 91% clean energy with 75% coming from nuclear power.

Solar power on a small scale costs over 2x what industrial-scale solar costs and that isn't likely to change.

Nuclear power using newer, already designed Thorium MSR can remove all sorts of dangers. The Thorium nuclear cycle can actually use spent uranium and plutonium fuel to generate energy while also converting the highly radioactive waste that needs to be stored for millions of years into waste than needs hundreds of years of storage. Also, there's no need to evacuate people near MSR failures. There won't be any explosion or radioactive leaks. The radioactive atoms are chemically bound to the salts in extremely stable configurations. They don't want to break apart.

Every other non-nuclear type of power generation results in dumping something into the environment with an infinite lifespan. Burning wood, dung, coal, natural gas directly put methane and CO₂ into the atmosphere. Solar panels have a 25 yr lifespan. What happens when those panels don't work anymore? They will end up just like our old TVs and computers - in a dump somewhere.

Wind is extremely dangerous, even more dangerous than nuclear based on human deaths alone.

MSR uses chemistry to engineer safety by default. It is high temperature, but low pressure, unlike water cooled nuclear. If anything bad happens in Thorium MSR, we end up with small salt rocks that can be picked up and disposed, not nuclear waste water.

Old nuclear was driven by the US Navy, who had really great reasons for wanting water cooled reactors (clearly). We are using effectively the same engineering from the 1950s today in water cooled reactors and adding multiple engineered failsafes. As we've learned, that isn't sufficient. We need to have mother nature and her chemistry working for us. MSR does that.

Forget nuclear == weapons. That's a historical bias across the world.

Push for MSR as the "green" solution for our power needs. Thorium is 3x3x more plentiful in the Earth's crust than uranium. Idaho has huge thorium deposits.

And Thorium doesn't create weaponized by-products and Thorium is much more easily tracked, so if someone steals any, they are very likely to be found.

Learn more about "LFTR" Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors.

TEDxDanubia talk: Https://youtu.be/N-yALPEpV4w This presenter thinks nuclear will be cheaper than burning any fossil fuel and developing nations will skip the massive solar and wind farms directly to energy dense nuclear. Not sure I agree on that.