Auchtoon!This Future Sucks
Recent Michigan news headlines:
- Feds renew order to keep J.H. Campbell coal plant open
- Steam billows from Michigan nuclear energy plant, marking a restart milestone
- Michigan plans to reissue Line 5 permit amid federal review, court fight
So here we are in 2026, and our discussion about energy seems to revolve mostly around technologies and solutions from previous centuries. Worse, technologies and solutions that actually have arrived (solar, wind, geothermal, etc.) are still put by many in the “not quite ready” category.
My younger self would be disappointed. It’s not like I really expected flying cars by this point, but cleaner, cheaper energy did seem like an achievable goal.
