Friends of Science Extract from February 2, 2022               

Robert Bryce has been writing about the energy business for three decades. In this 10-minute video he explains how power density determines the size and shape of our energy networks, which he condenses into the "Iron Law of Power Density" (the lower the power density, the higher the resource intensity). The current push to "electrify everything" means moving our energy systems from reliable, dispatchable high power-density sources to unreliable, non-dispatchable low power-density sources that require far more input resources.

Mr. Bryce has compiled a database documenting US wind and solar rejections or restrictions since 2015. All of these are the result of 323 communities from Hawaii to Maine protecting themselves against Big Wind. The database also includes 13 Big Solar projects that were rejected in 2021. Rural America is largely invisible to journalists at most big-city news outlets, as well as to rich activist groups like the Sierra Club and their allies in academia, so these rejections get ignored by most media outlets.

Mr. Bryce's preferred energy strategy is "N2N", natural gas to nuclear.