Hydro stations have the problem that you need the right natural conditions in order to build some. Here, I think, the Harz area contained a lot of dams. (But, as in days like now where all the rivers dry out from drought, it might also become a bit hairy to use such.) Small experiments have also been done with thermal energy, but this is something that shouldn't be used too excessively to not cool off the deeper levels of the earth. (Places with volcanic activity where it comes out by itself anyway, there you could make use of it as you'd do no additional harm there.) Nuclear energy is... well, a sword with two sides. Of course, being used properly, and maintained properly, you'll gain something from them. But their big, big disadvantage is: Where to put all the fuel rods that are used up? Their radiation lasts longer than mankind continues to exist. There is no final depot where you can just drop them off and forget about them... Needless to say, they can't stand in a seismically active area, neither where they can suffer floods, and they need to be placed close to a river of wherever they can get cooling water for the fuel rods from. You can't build them just everywhere. So... well, it would be better if not being need of them. The risks and the costs if anything happens are too high and too incapable to be paid with money. Additionally, there's no place on earth for the radiocative garbage.
New cycle of history - hm, maybe... There have always been cycles where people called to throw the old away and forget about it completely because they deemed the old to be the source of current problems, and to break more free from that. I still haven't made up my mind about it yet, I still continue to observe - and, the best I can sum it up with until now is "it's a time episode of large and wide-scale changes". Or, to quote a Funker Vogt song "the old time tunnel will explode". This is what currently seems to take place.
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Here, I think, the Harz area contained a lot of dams.
(But, as in days like now where all the rivers dry out from drought, it might also become a bit hairy to use such.)
Small experiments have also been done with thermal energy, but this is something that shouldn't be used too excessively to not cool off the deeper levels of the earth. (Places with volcanic activity where it comes out by itself anyway, there you could make use of it as you'd do no additional harm there.)
Nuclear energy is... well, a sword with two sides.
Of course, being used properly, and maintained properly, you'll gain something from them. But their big, big disadvantage is: Where to put all the fuel rods that are used up? Their radiation lasts longer than mankind continues to exist.
There is no final depot where you can just drop them off and forget about them...
Needless to say, they can't stand in a seismically active area, neither where they can suffer floods, and they need to be placed close to a river of wherever they can get cooling water for the fuel rods from. You can't build them just everywhere.
So... well, it would be better if not being need of them. The risks and the costs if anything happens are too high and too incapable to be paid with money. Additionally, there's no place on earth for the radiocative garbage.
New cycle of history - hm, maybe...
There have always been cycles where people called to throw the old away and forget about it completely because they deemed the old to be the source of current problems, and to break more free from that.
I still haven't made up my mind about it yet, I still continue to observe - and, the best I can sum it up with until now is "it's a time episode of large and wide-scale changes".
Or, to quote a Funker Vogt song "the old time tunnel will explode". This is what currently seems to take place.