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A damning indictment of the Net Zero political project has been made by one of the world\u2019s leading nuclear physicists. In a recently published\u00a0science paper<\/a>, Dr. Wallace Manheimer said it would be the end of modern civilisation. Writing about wind and solar power he argued it would be especially tragic \u201cwhen not only will this new infrastructure fail, but will cost trillions, trash large portions of the environment, and be entirely unnecessary\u201d. The stakes, he added, \u201care enormous\u201d.<\/p>\n Dr. Manheimer holds a physics PhD from MIT and has had a 50-year career in nuclear research, including work at the Plasma Physics Division at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. He has published over 150 science papers. In his view, there is \u201ccertainly no scientific basis\u201d for expecting a climate crisis from too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in the next century or so. He argues that there is no reason why civilisation cannot advance using both fossil fuel power and nuclear power, gradually shifting to more nuclear power.<\/p>\n There is of course a growing body of opinion that points out that the Emperor has no clothes when it comes to all the fashionable green technologies. Electric cars, wind and solar power, hydrogen, battery storage, heat pumps \u2013 all have massive disadvantages, and are incapable of replacing existing systems without devastating consequences.<\/p>\n Manheimer points out that before fossil fuel became widely used, energy was provided by people and animals. Because so little energy was produced, \u201ccivilisation was a thin veneer atop a vast mountain of human squalor and misery, a veneer maintained by such institutions as slavery, colonialism and tyranny\u201d.<\/p>\n