Energy Autonomy: The Economic, Social and Technological Case for Renewable Energy

Industrial civilization has relied on the combustion of abundant and cheap carbon fuels for 200 years. Continued reliance on these fuels has led to perilous consequences. The answer is to make the transition to renewable sources of energy and to distributed decentralized energy generation. This model has been proven, technologically, commercially and politically. The author suggests the widely advocated return to nuclear power is compromised and illusory.