The best way to ensure we can adapt fast enough would be to have the highest variability (ie different types of energy, different scales, different environments).
Energy diversity is not a feature intrinsically. Cheap, dispatchable, reliable, scalable energy enables maximum flexibility. In the real world this means nuclear fission.
"Cheap, dispatchable, reliable, scalable" are all functions of the environment. If the environment changes so do these values (for this and all other energy sources).
Nuclear is superior in all rational aspects (for use on Earth). Only in the irrational (unscientific regulation) can other sources be more efficient.
was it superior in the 1800s?
Researching other energy sources is fine, but keeping them alive artificially after proven inefficient is wasteful. Of course people are free to waste their own money if they like.
“A copy is just an identical image. There is the possibility that a single virus could destroy an entire set of systems and copies do not give rise to variety and originality. Life
perpetuates itself through diversity and this includes the ability to sacrifice itself when necessary. Cells repeat the process of degeneration and regeneration until one day they die,
obliterating an entire set of memory and information. Only genes remain. Why continually repeat this cycle? Simply to survive by avoiding the weaknesses of an unchanging system.”GITS
Only having 1 type of energy creates a weakness, just as if we were limited to BTC only. Having altcoins allows ppl to quickly switch as the (industry, legal, etc.) environment changes
Its a feature if you want society to be able to more quickly adapt to a changing environment (as the climate change people preach). Diversity is a weakness in an unchanging environment
