The world of energy production is rapidly sinking into total confusion.

Solutions abound for the rocketing price of fuels, the threats to energy security, the huge inflationary effects and the deep economic harm. But unfortunately most of them conflict, leaving hopeless division and misunderstanding between short-term and immediate expedients necessary for survival, and long-term needs to avert climate catastrophe.

The United Kingdom, to take one example, is now deeply stuck in this quagmire, with near political desperation in the search for amelioration of an unparalleled rise in energy costs for both home and industry, together with growing threats to basic national security. This comes alongside growing apprehension that all the efforts to cut carbon to net zero may well fail anyway to halt the inexorable world rise in greenhouse gases.