Grist: Two recent movies, Pandoras Promise and Switch, promote massive changes in the U.S. energy economy; both embrace nuclear power and point to France as the nuclear success story. The two-part company, however, on natural gas: Switch sees gas plus nuclear as the major energy sources of the future, but Pandora gives gas no significant role.
These are good-bad movies. They effectively raise the right issues but crash on flawed conclusions. Pandora correctly places energy at the heart of the most...