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Unless somebody gets a fusion reactor working we are going to keep living with declining EROEI. Symptoms may include temporary gluts of oil as economies collapse and temporary shortages as we all fight over the scraps at the table. Your mileage may vary.
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A fission reactor specifically Thorium nuclear is probably the only realistic short term solution. You can always work on that for now until you possibly figure out a workable fission design. Every unit of GDP has a unit of energy behind it and if you don’t figure out something to handle base load power generation that isn’t fossil fuel we will likely have a a declining standard of living. I suppose it’s theoretically possible to cover a vast majority of the Mohave dessert with solar thermal plants and giant molten salt reservoirs to continue producing power in hours where there’s no sun. We could even get by with new traditional nuclear BWR and PWR’s uranium reactors but we ain’t going to replace and grow what we need with efficiency/conservation, wind, and solar panels. Unfortunately those that advocate for that don’t really have the scientific background to understand what they are saying.