Not only bridge, but provide the power for research and production. How do Greenies think this stuff will be made? Fairy dust?
Exactly. President Bush said this in his 2000 election campaign and he was right then and the idea is still valid today. Sometime in the future we will achieve true Kardashev Type I status with an energy capability equivalent to the solar insolation on Earth, between 10^16 and 10^17 watts.
But we can’t get there without unfettered use of available energy sources.
Of course, the greenies don’t want us to get there. They want us living in caves, eating turnips and riding in donkey carts (while they eat sushi in luxury, of course).