Hmm, well that’s unfortunate. I’m sincere about being skeptical for the purpose of eliciting better proposals and better ideas for how to make a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. From my perspective, you dismissed my position of skepticism based on a false premise. While I did want to correct that premise – I’m really not demanding a solution that would work overnight – I am still interested in your ideas.
It’s a little depressing to me that you’d abandon the discussion after only the smallest amount of pushback on your position. I think it’s really important to discuss the future of energy production and not let the conversation be driven by hucksters and popularizers, but people citing real scientific and engineering principles. This is about as close as it gets to a real discussion. The fact that it fizzled so quickly makes me feel pretty pessimistic about finding any solutions to our energy problems.
