The defining inequality in the world today is that between the electricity rich and the electricity poor. Electricity is the world’s most important and fastest-growing form of energy. However, global electricity generation still accounts for between only 9% to 15% (depending on data source) of global energy consumption. Poverty, women’s rights, climate change — indeed, most of the world’s most pressing challenges — can be explained by answering one question: can you turn on your lights, if you're lucky enough to have them? While electricity availability doesn’t guarantee wealth, its absence almost always means poverty. Darkness kills human potential. Electricity nourishes it.

In the battle to replace Big Fossil, there are many compelling equality benefits that an 'Ultimate Power Couple' partnership between the Nuclear and Wind, Water & Solar (WWS) electricity generation sectors could yield, for example:-

1. Eliminate millions of unnecessary deaths, disease and dramatically shortened life spans from respiratory and related diseases, and injuries caused by burning fossil fuels' 85% of global energy demand, and burning bio fuels 8% of global energy used to cook and keep warm: and

2. Connect electricity to 12% of humans - nearly a billion people - now off grid. More than half the 1 billion people in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) live on less than a dollar a day. Women in LDCs have a one in 16 chance of dying in childbirth, compared to one in 3,500 in Europe; LDCs are among the groups of countries most affected by climate change, while they contribute least to it. Many LDCs are also small islands whose very survival is threatened by rising sea levels;

3. Increase electricity supply to 3 billion people on the planet today who are using less energy than the equivalent electricity needed to run by an average refrigerator.

Few would argue with these aims, but they cannot be realised by the Wind, Water & Solar power sectors alone, which will struggle to grow from their current supply of circa 2% of global energy demand, because they:-

1. Can’t produce enough net electricity to cover the energy embedded in their own construction; causing

2. Orders of magnitude increases in mining & extraction activities compared to Nuclear power; causing

3. Huge increases in fossil fuel burning perusing infrastructure build-out, eroding health, wellbeing and life spans; causing

4. Mass industrialisation of nature, accelerating the already rapidly degrading and impoverished environment; plus

5. Countless unborn generations will be denied access to essential non-fuel fossils resources if early 21st Century humans are foolish enough to chase the 100% renewables unicorn, by greedily burning all remaining finite and irreplaceable coal, gas and oil reserves, which we're already half way through.

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