Supervillainy: Astroengineering Global Warming

Gregory Benford is a professor of plasma physics and astrophysics at the University of California, and received his PhD in 1967. He's been an adviser for NASA, the Department of Energy and the White House Council on Space Policy, and attended the first NSF global warming summit back in 1992. He's also a writer, and has bashed out some of the best hard sci-fi novels of the modern age, including Timescape, Cosm, and the Galactic Center Saga which spanned six books from In The Ocean Of Night to Sailing Bright Eternity.
This experience of painting mind-expanding mental images with strict scientific accuracy allowed him to give a very complete picture of the challenges of global warming, free of the usual distortions, half-remembered statistics and lies motivated by personal gain.

Using the "best case" global warming numbers agreed on by the summit to destroy one solution popular among the ignorant, he showed that for nuclear power to make enough of a difference to stop global warming by 2030, the world would have to replace the electrical output of one large coal-fired power station with an equivalent nuclear power station, EVERY DAY for the next 25 years. Every damn day. 365 per year. I would not have believed the figures if I hadn't seen every step of his working-out in that meeting.

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