All it takes is to do my job.

Don't want anyone to prematurely push Hipster Alarm's button, but wouldn't that create Ironic Energy?

From Wikipedia:

Regardless of possible merits, my bull-Shih detector screams bloody murder. Does the good prof possess also some degree in biomolecular linguistics or is he just so good at marketing?

There are funds that take care of large scale donations, some of them non-discriminating, some of them catering to donors with some leaning. Two of them, openly and tranparently catering to rich people who want to be sure their money won't end up in the coffers of Greenpeace, WWF, Sierra club, Sea Shepherd, PETA, NRDC, Union of Concerned Scientists et al. (a sentiment I wholeheartedly understand), were spreading donations amounting roughly to WWF's and Greenpeace's combined yacht and sandwiches budget over bunch of causes loosely connected by the funds' raison d'être. That is covert funneling of dark money. When the aforementioned fuc^H^H^H fan^H^H^H char^H^H^H^H activist organisations I dislike (and more importantly disagree with on fundamental level) do something similar only with larger amounts of money, it is "educating the public" or "showcasing the opportunities".

I think they used sugar cane grown in tropics and harvested by dirt cheap labor. So the rising living standards requiring increased mechanization to keep the pace might disrupt it pretty soon.

Dunno where you live, but pretty much everyone else has to pay for it through taxes or feed-in-tariffs whether they like it or not, which is the main issue - judging from myself, lots of critics would be content with "renewables" craze if its fans paid for it. After all, there must be enough of you to achieve this considering politicians shoving this into our throats get voted again and again. Unless, of course, it keeps on some other way, like lobbying from "Big Wind" (and traditional energy companies are always happy to jump the bandwagon once there are subsidies guaranteed by law)?

It's about 3,000 MW each - 2,919 for Doel and 2,985 for Tihange.

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Excluding some magical increase of wind conditions to radically change capacity factor, 2.3GW would just raise those 2-odd TWh/year to somewhere near 5 TWh/y, thus making the dent rather unimpressive. And that's without counting in the intermittency of wind which would need to be balanced by pumped storage plants which are quite lossy not to mention nonexistent (at least in the required capacity) and based on a completely different economic model (pump up using cheap night electricity and generating during peaks).
The artificial island as pumped storage is indeed cool and useful idea but its 300 MW for 5 hours are not gonna make that much of a dent.

Sorry for being uncool and boringly realistic spoilsport, but seriously people, there would be no need for it if you just did your math (and fact checking) for yourself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electricity_generation_in_Belgium.svg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Belgium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Belgium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor#Typical_capacity_factors

We can safely assume that the oil companies can sleep soundly at night.

Like the problem with lack of entrepreneurial spirit? Let's start with marketing the green honey to Umberto Eco fans — anyone else read Baudolino?

Let it spread unofficially and once they get the meaning imprinted in them and the only remaining trouble is inappropriate name, just think of something noble sounding, like "Asssaver".

I Adblock everything, but whitelist the sites I support. Is this too much? Not enough?

Dunno, but seems like exactly what I'm doing. Keep on going and don't waste too much time worrying about this.

Nice hearing someone say it so bluntly.
Also, why link to some blog about what he said, instead of linking to the actual speech (somebody had already beaten me to it above, but just an AC, so invisible to much too many)?