{"id":24487,"date":"2011-07-10T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T04:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=24487"},"modified":"2011-07-10T00:00:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T04:00:58","slug":"michio-kaku-the-truth-about-alternative-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/07\/10\/michio-kaku-the-truth-about-alternative-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Michio Kaku: The Truth About Alternative Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24488\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/07\/michio-kaku.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/07\/michio-kaku.jpg 500w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/07\/michio-kaku-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/07\/michio-kaku-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Solar, wind and geothermal are becoming more viable, and fusion is only twenty years away. Video from Big Think <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/24633\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Expect the corporatists to ramp up global warming denialism as all of this becomes more apparent. After all, what&#8217;s in it for Exxon-Mobil, the richest company in the world?<\/p>\n<p>Or, closer to home, what&#8217;s in it for Alberta, which has 10% of the country&#8217;s population but now seems to represent 100% of the government&#8217;s priority?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar, wind and geothermal are becoming more viable, and fusion is only twenty years away. Video from Big Think here. Expect the corporatists to ramp up global warming denialism as all of this becomes more apparent. After all, what&#8217;s in it for Exxon-Mobil, the richest company in the world? Or, closer to home, what&#8217;s in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Michio Kaku: The Truth About Alternative Energy - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/07\/10\/michio-kaku-the-truth-about-alternative-energy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michio Kaku: The Truth About Alternative Energy - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Solar, wind and geothermal are becoming more viable, and fusion is only twenty years away. 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