There is nothing refreshing about Yakabuski's article. He is just rehashing the debunked theories of the Breakthrough Institute, which is a shill for the nuclear industry, and which just happens to believe that renewable energies are not the answer to the climate change problem.  Germany has disproved this. It has abandoned nuclear for green power. In  2016, clean power supplied almost all of Germany’s power demand for the first time, marking a milestone Merkel’s “Energiewende” policy to boost renewables while phasing out nuclear and fossil fuels.