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We have multiple paths we can go down to solve any energy problems we have, and it's just a matter of time till the tech is developed to make it no longer a problem at all.

Obviously cold fusion would solve the issue completely, enable travel to other planets in our solar system on a regular basis (and therefore, allow us to easily teraform them and populate them (including moons).

Nucleor power though has come along way and is far safer now then it used to be, and while it's expensive to set up, it can be mostly automated as well at this point, meaning a newer plant would need far less people actually manning it (but not like just 1 homer with a button hehe).

There are even safeguards now to prevent a meltdown if a power plant is left unmanned for a long time (rods i believe would continue to heat up till you ran out of water/coolant and then melt down if not monitored in the past....which could cause severe environmental damage).

Honestly though, the main reason not to build more nuke plants is because there are better alternatives in the pipeline already, that don't cost as much and will probably be up and running before the investment in a new nuke plant actually pays off.

There are ways to combine Solar and wind for instance in 1 generator (large solar panels are used for the wind generator, gathering electricity from the sun AND also generating it from the wind at the same time).

Water generators are also usable in a more efficient way as well, using the initial kinetic generation of the water (from a dam etc) to create a perpetual generation of electricity via water/steam/water conversion (basically get many times the electricity output from the same dam as you used to).

As technology advances all forms of energy generation will improve, until we eventually develop cold fusion or something similar that enables you to get unlimited energy for free or very close to free. I imagine, if nothing catastrophic happens, that we will have unlimited free energy in the next 20-30 years for sure (basically before 2050).

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