To me this signals that Buffett believes that huge growth of cheap and crazy-popular wind and solar generators will continue to be directly correlated with a massive expansion of fracked natural gas (i.e. high-carbon fossil fuel) to back up their intermittency.
Fracked natural gas is certainly better than coal in almost all metrics (way less deadly air pollution, arguably less carbon emissions given better pipeline seals/maintenance), but it is not compatible with a climate solution because of its high carbon footprint.
I'm always advocating for 24/7 low-carbon, low-land, low-material energy (i.e. energy with high power density) like nuclear but it appears that the public simply is not interested. It would help if we could just choose a reactor design and serialize it like the Koreans did to get costs way down.
Fracked natural gas is certainly better than coal in almost all metrics (way less deadly air pollution, arguably less carbon emissions given better pipeline seals/maintenance), but it is not compatible with a climate solution because of its high carbon footprint.
I'm always advocating for 24/7 low-carbon, low-land, low-material energy (i.e. energy with high power density) like nuclear but it appears that the public simply is not interested. It would help if we could just choose a reactor design and serialize it like the Koreans did to get costs way down.