Energy

The natural long-term plan to zero carbon is straight forward and completely doable with today’s technology, if politics would get out of the way. Here is the path. All new data centers will build their own power plants, so as not to interfere with the power to the local citizens. This also eliminates the need for long power lines. Transportation of cars, buses and small trucks should switch over to natural gas. Small modular reactors (SMR’s) should be built to slowly replace natural gas as the new power source. Molten salt thorium reactors should replace SMR’s Thorium reactors to be used for industry both heating and powering Thorium reactors used to create hydrogen by electrolysis of water and cars, buses and trucks to switch from natural gas to hydrogen. Thorium reactors to produce diesel and jet fuel by using CO2 from the air to be returned to the air when burned for zero net carbon Thorium reactors to desalt sea water to grow crops in the desert. Finally, thorium reactors will be replaced with fusion the ultimate energy source. Required technology not yet available.