As much as I appreciate & like the idea of Nuclear power in principle, I think Mulp points to why it's a failing way to go. I think we need to think in a different way. The bottom up approach. Interestingly Honda is already going this way. There first step has been the hydrogen vehicle. There next step is creating hydrogen generators fro the home. We should be our own power generating stations, instead of a centralized power system.
On the Solar front a guy out of Silicon valley has created the holy grail for price point on solar power cells $1 a square foot. He has created a technique equivalent to ink jet printing layers of chemicals on special material that you can cut & shape as needed that when combined generate electricity from the sun. This in conjunction with hydrogen/methane etc to create hybrid power plants on a microcosm basis is the way to think.
I agree with Heckler that an Apollo program of sorts is needed. I would like to see something that was done in history done again today. A worlds fair like the Chicago worlds fair. A white city that visualizes the future. This may seem pie in the sky but keep in mind a technology that's changed our world came from the Chicago Worlds Fair. An invention by one radical man that pissed off Edison to no end. Tesla & the AC current. Through Westinghouse they underbid Edison with a new technology that allowed electricity to power the entire White City in Chicago. Up to that point no one had been able to get currents to travel so far. Many more things came out of that Worlds Fair but that is one of the biggest tech shifts in a century.
Creating a Green worlds fair showcasing the potentials of new technology in a specially created city would do more to show what could be done & how to manufacture & market these new ideas than most anything. A way to put a store front on the Apollo program of energy independence.
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