Very good article about the future of energy production, after oil and coal are gone (or too politically incorrect).
This part should tell you something:
“To obtain 20 kilowatt-hours per day from wind, one person would require roughly 330 square meters of wind farm — or, to put it another way, would need to share a big 2-megawatt turbine with 600 friends. To get the same power from deserts would require roughly 50 square meters of concentrating solar power station — the same area as a typical British house. And 20 kilowatt hours per day from nuclear power would require roughly a one-millionth share of a modern nuclear power station.
If a country with the size and population of Britain — 61 million people — adopted that mix, the land area occupied by wind farms would be nearly 10 percent of the country, or roughly the size of Wales. The area occupied by desert solar power stations — in the case of Britain, they would have to be connected by long-distance power lines — would be five times the size of London. The 50 nuclear power stations required would occupy a more modest 50 square kilometers.”
Nuclear, here we come baby.
I always remember a West Wing episode in wich there is a kind of congress of alternative energy, just to discover it’s just a bunch of wacko’s. And they were democrats to the bone.
Alternative is another name to inviable.