As already highlighted elsewhere, here are some suggestions deemed necessary in the national, European, and global context, and which deserve to be shared with any audience deemed appropriate.
1) For the common good, the conflict between power-technologies for marketing reasons is harmful, particularly between nuclear and renewables, especially after the EU Taxonomy, which came into force on January 1, 2023, that classifies nuclear energy as a sustainable economic activity, provided it meets strict technical and environmental criteria. This must be well understood and implemented not only by the general public but also by those involved, because the world has an absolute need for any energy that it cannot do without, even to promote peace and development everywhere.
2) The problem of energy shortages envisaged by the spread of IT/AI is completely underestimated. Professor Melvin Vopson of the University of Portsmouth (UK), for example, has long highlighted this issue with specific research on the "information catastrophe," but it appears to have been completely ignored to date. The increasing trend in this sector demands profound and careful reflection from global academia.
3) The deployment of renewable technologies such as wind and solar should certainly be encouraged, but with the understanding that 1GW of installed renewable capacity is equivalent to approximately 1/4 GW of installed capacity from other sources, such as nuclear or fossil fuels. This is something that many regional and global planners still seem to fail to consider. Furthermore, the volatility and variability of electricity generated by wind and photovoltaic systems creates problems for grids that are poorly interconnected or poorly equipped with autonomous primary grid regulation systems (frequency/power), such as for example hydroelectric power or quick-startup systems with gas turbines with short rump-up (30 sec.). For this reason, it is desirable that any plan for the expansion of renewables (especially wind and photovoltaic) should include parallel hydro-solar plants that perform regulatory functions (see, for example, a recent article https://doi.org/10.59973/ipil.270).
4) Talking about green plans to protect the environment and its remaining resources at a time when the environment and its reserves are being squandered in useless domination wars leads the entire global audience to dismiss any proposal as false environmentalism. Thus, all trust in any authority disappears, and any serious development plan, with a necessary mix of renewable and traditional energy to be determined on a case-by-case basis, is reduced to pure fantasy, distorted by market interests, speculative manipulation, and mistrust of anyone proposing an alternative solution. Any solution, in any case, in keeping with the spirit of the times we live in, would risk toappear to be subordinated to plans to continue ongoing conflicts.
5) Solutions can only come from a peaceful and cooperative world, aware of the value of trust, reciprocity, and self-determination, where power no longer requires fear to be exercised, but is truly a service to the common good, rather than a manipulative slogan declaimed in the streets to realize elitist ambitions. A world where everyone has a role and dignity, perhaps supported and not replaced by robotics and AI. This implies the primacy of education and research, avoiding unemployment and especially the intellectual unemployment that fuels migration. Instead, it should be directed and utilized locally, particularly for innovation in every process, as well as in energy production with more efficient and effective methods (e.g., nuclear fusion, LENR, bacterial hydrogen production, innovations in higher-yield technologies, etc.).
6) It would be pure illusion to think of a salvation for the present world that allows the prolongation of current lifestyles, steeped in anomie, conflict, mistrust, the absence of values and the practice of behaviors that pollute the environment, the social and individual body of a humanity that shows evident signs of deviance.
7) Without fossil fuels and with energy-intensive innovations advancing when nuclear fusion is not yet industrially available (see, for example, a recent article https://zenodo.org/records/20158989 ), energy becomes a subject of speculation and perceived as a means to make machines think rather than to meet human needs. States must return to investing in energy, which is a key sector for the energy security of the people they govern, but also for the cyber-military security with which they can ensure geopolitical balance.
8) It is not only a commitment to the practice of rationality that can lead science to acknowledge the existence of an intelligent design to be understood, preserved, and passed on to future generations, but also with the help of evolving technology, which, not coincidentally, is being made available to humans at this challenging historical juncture.
9) The choices that matter, whether oriented towards Science, Peace, or Faith, as well as towards a cooperative and peaceful world, are not the result of force or domination, nor of proposals from Artificial Intelligence, but of a precise act of human will.
10) It is reasonable to think that if there is ever a Judgment, it will necessarily have to consider the reasons for the Act of Will that guided every human choice.
