Viability of our energy sector

The human circulatory system is just as important as the energy system is to modern life. While blood is an irreplaceable medium in the human body, electricity is essential for powering our appliances.

Modern medicine is in a sense an adjunct to the human body—it will never replace it to the point where it can function entirely on its own. The same is true of the energy system originally built: today’s so-called modern energy sector can usefully complement the original one, but it cannot fully replace it.

For centuries, people have sought immortality, for example through the philosopher’s stone, and nothing has changed in this regard today—with new possibilities emerging through modern knowledge. But we can never be more powerful than nature itself, nor can we catch up with all that our human species has lived through: millions of years on this planet.

The same is true of the energy sector. There is only one set of laws of physics, and they cannot be overcome or overruled by ideology or politics. Electricity should be generated where it is consumed—that is unquestionably the ideal situation. But it is not always possible to generate electricity at the point of consumption, so it has to be transmitted over a certain distance—the shorter, the better. A simple generation process, including transmission, is key to its sustainability. The more complex the system, the more demanding it will be to operate and the more vulnerable it will be in terms of safety.