Solar is going to be the economical energy for homes and other stationary point uses. Everything that goes into solar is recyclable and will be re-used rather than end up in the dumps.
I have no objection to rooftop solar, but carpeting our beautiful and irreplaceable desert valleys with solar is an abomination, a corporate abomination as well as an environmental abomination.
I think cold fusion research is warming up, and again, the material used are recyclable, and the deuterium in water is abundant enough and recoverable enough that this could be our major industrial source of power in the future, maybe twenty to forty years out.
I think conventional nuclear power can be "cleaned up" and the byproducts effectively contained, and power produced safely. Just don't allow designs that have China Syndrome potentials, use bigger reactors with less concentrated nuclear components, and use byproduct radioactives, encased in glass at levels that won't melt the glass, submerged in ponds, to preheat water for the generation cycle, stuff like that.
Although coal and oil are evidently still available and in the case of coal and natural gas fairly abundant, we should not have an economy based on these resources alone, and conservation of depletable resources, even nuclear, is a always going to be good long-term planning.
We don't need to accept any plan that reduces human productivity, technology, or living standards. And we don't need a fascist world government like the UN.
