As with most politically hot subjects it likely not to be addressed sufficiently until it is all too late. At which point we will all be playing a very expensive catch up game, at the tax payers expense. Ironic isn’t it.

Were politics not the stupid beast it is, we could have transparency to resolve these issues now, before it comes too expensive.

But we’re a fickle race and we’d all much rather concentrate on what’s going on right now and for that matter, whether or not Britney was miming.

Power crises are already gripping developed countries such as South Africa. We’ve had numerous warnings in the UK of an energy gap that will occur in about 2015-2020 when a number of power stations go off-line before replacements are planned to be running.

But if we just bury our heads a little deeper in the sand, perhaps we won’t be able to hear those rumours any longer.