The Energy Blog: Obstacles to The Energy Revolution

The Energy Blog: Obstacles to The Energy Revolution: "This post deals with the bureaucratic obstacles that will delay The Energy Revolution. More importantly these delays will no doubt increase the economic cost of the revolution and heighten the reduction of standard of living that will occur while we are undergoing this process. Under existing procedures it could easily take 10-15 years to build a major energy facility. To transition through the revolution it will required to build thousands of such facilities. Other countries could build such facilities in much less time, with far less bureaucratic obstacles and less concern for impact on the environment. This would result in further requirements for costly imports, rather than us becoming an exporter of products for which we have abundant natural resources"