Bill Gates has been fairly vocally pro-nuclear and down on renewables for a while. He sometimes credits Vaclav Smil with inspiring this opinion.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/meet-vaclav-smil-man...

I've never really found what he argues particularly compelling.

His December 2017 piece, Electric Vehicles: not so fast, seems kind of wrong in retrospect but also pretty empty of intellectual heft.