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This is the official forecast for energy provision over the next 50 years

The figures are from the Department of Trade and Industry—and in my opinion they make a crucial mistake. The categories are listed as coal, nuclear, wave, biomass, nuclear waste, hydroelectricity, wind-farms, photovoltaic solar cells, waste, and combined heat and power systems.

There is an important omission.

Nowhere in these calculations is there any mention of the most abundant energy of all. It lies beneath our feet. We live on a thin crust coating a red-hot, molten mass of metal and magma. The thickness of the Earth’s solid crust, size for size, is the same as the paint on a croquet ball. The rest is a molten mass that is a vast source of energy — geothermal power.
There are objections to conventional sources. Atomic power is now being touted by many. Nuclear energy produces no CO2 or other greenhouse gases, but it always produces dangerous and persistent wastes. And there is no mention of fusion power. Vast sums have gone in to a quest for fusion energy. The idea was first investigated in the Zeta reactor of the 1950s, and claims of success were first published some 45 years ago. The current reactor is JET, at Culham, on which I wrote a report for the European Commission twenty years ago. It is still nowhere near producing power.

	This is the official forecast for energy provision over the next 50 years The figures are from the Department of Trade and Industry—and in my opinion they make a crucial mistake. The categories are listed as coal, nuclear, wave, biomass, nuclear waste, hydroelectricity, wind-farms, photovoltaic solar cells, waste, and combined heat and power systems. There is an important omission.
Nowhere in these calculations is there any mention of the most abundant energy of all. It lies beneath our feet. We live on a thin crust coating a red-hot, molten mass of metal and magma. The thickness of the Earth’s solid crust, size for size, is the same as the paint on a croquet ball. The rest is a molten mass that is a vast source of energy — geothermal power. There are objections to conventional sources. Atomic power is now being touted by many. Nuclear energy produces no CO2 or other greenhouse gases, but it always produces dangerous and persistent wastes. And there is no mention of fusion power. Vast sums have gone in to a quest for fusion energy. The idea was first investigated in the Zeta reactor of the 1950s, and claims of success were first published some 45 years ago. The current reactor is JET, at Culham, on which I wrote a report for the European Commission twenty years ago. It is still nowhere near producing power.