JAN Konietzko of Maastricht University's Sustainability Institute would be the sort of person I would ordinarily automatically be skeptical of, just from reading his professional profile, because his specialties are sustainability, life-cycle analysis, circular economy, digitalization and regeneration.
First, we have the tiresome idealism of the collection of activist groups that use every news item regarding energy — whether an announcement of some new project or the completion of an ongoing one, power shortages such as have been caused by our current heat wave, rate hikes, policy announcements from the Department of Energy — as an occasion to bitterly protest that the country has not yet abolished every form of power generation that is not 100-percent renewable energy.