In HR, we have a saying...

[Isard]

"If you can't do better, sit down and shut the **** up."

While this sounds harsh, its a simple concept to grasp. If you cannot do better, you shouldn't harass others over the job they do.

Lets bring this to a topic then.

Oil, people have a problem with it. A well founded problem.

So we start regulating, making sure we have backups, and backups for the backups. Accidents happen, lessons learned, and our foresight increases. (of course, companies that clean it up are just looking for PR)

Still you rail against them. Alright, they say, what if we used something else?

Nuclear power! Great, its wast products can be captured and sealed away without doing permanent harm to the environment, win win! Right?

Nope. Nuclear bad, apparently, just because it can be sealed away, doesn't mean its a good idea to some people. Perfection or GTFO.


Wind turbines?

Birds.


Uh... Okay... Underwater turbines, or a dam, something like that?


Fish.


We'll get this, hold on now...


Uhhh... Solar? Wait, not powerful enough... OR regular enough... And damned expensive, and not too environmentally friendly to start either...


Ethanol raises food prices...


See where this goes now?

So, next time you decide to shoot an idea down, please, have a proper alternative instead of just making a fuss. And on the topic, let's hear these magical ideas you have for solving the energy crisis without using oil, nuclear, wind, solar, ethanol, or dams/ocean currents. Because energy experts are all morons obviously if that's all they can come up with.