ABSTRACT
The world’s population grew to an almost unsustainable size, and pollution of the natural environment, the air, the ground, and the seas affected the world on a scale never seen before, with climate change only one of the consequences. The world’s nuclear industry–Areva, Westinghouse, Toshiba—is virtually bankrupt. China is the world’s leader in coal consumption and it operates three times more coal capacity than the United States: however, China burned in 2016 the least amount of coal in 3 years. The world of bio-energy that we have to address later as well is a very important aspect. The new opportunities for the development of the poor in the “Third World Nations” are perhaps the most important aspects of solar energy that deserves its name. Things degraded further when in the 1970s atomic power plants got the favours of the politicians: nuclear was in those days “unlimited amounts of energy for free”.
