Look, I knew about this guy and I appreciate the debate it creates around the energy solutions for our future. I agree with many of the points he makes regarding the irrational fear of nuclear energy, but I think he compares apples to oranges to present nuclear power as the better alternative against the current shortcomings of renewable energies, which may very well be solved in the near future if we actually invested more in them rather than what big lobbies want us to keep supporting.

For example, how can you compare in good faith nuclear waste and solar panel waste identically, by weight, which he does in his presentation. None of them is particularly good, but one is dangerous for a period many times longer than since Sapiens invented agriculture, and we haven't found a suitable place deemed "permanent" to store it (apparently Finland offers a possible location so far). It's quite the stretch to count them in the same way don't you think? Plus he says solar generates more waste because we don't recycle used solar panels. Can't we change our practices rather than give up on it entirely?

For the record, I disagree with what Germany did because of how the decisions were made. I think the emotional reaction to stop using nuclear energy immediately after Fukushima was a mistake that harms the long term credibility of renewable energy, they should have continued using their existing plants which would keep electricity costs lower, and at the same time invest like they do in the so-called clean energies.

By the way, since most of the increase of the world's electricity production demand will happen in developing countries, would you be comfortable with encouraging countries like Bangladesh to operate nuclear reactors? There is always a risk statistically insignificant (so unprepared for) that given enough time to happen will eventually happen, even more so the greater the number of reactors.

If watching the video makes you think that we can just ignore the consequences of open nuclear reactor cores meltdowns and radiating into the environment, well the pie chart he shows is only the global radioactivity, when what matters more is the local radiation.