Bingowings said:

imperialscum said:

Bingowings said:

Everyone should give up their petrol cars eventually because it's a polluting finite resource.

Electric vehicles are getting better but they aren't currently viable as agricultural vehicles or for traveling long distances that why investing in public transport and better electric motors is paramount.

If the electric energy that powers your car is produced by coal then it is better to dive a petrol one.

But whenever you want to build a nuclear plant (currently the only viable alternative to coal plant) you get those environmentalist idiots obstructing the process.

There is no need to use fossil fuel or nuclear fission (you call them environmentalist idiots but the waste is a pollutant for thousands of years and a security risk).

Tidal energy and solar thermal energy are perpetual and technologically light.

America has such variety of landscape the opportunities for using renewables for power generation are great.

Conventional solar cells are technologically heavy (though they do pay for themselves) but land based wind farms are a waste of time.

Storage can be a problem.

If we could crack fusion energy would cease to be an issue if we were permitted to know it existed of course.

There is a considerable progress toward a useful fusion plant. But as of this moment the only useful power plant is either coal or nuclear. That is the reality. Any environmentalist who says that (at this moment) the viable alternative to those two are wind, solar and hydro plants is a complete idiot.

Semiconductor based solar plants and wind farms are useless. Not to mention costly to manage with all the variations in the output. If you are forced to have a backup coal/gas plant running, then it is better not have them at all.

Well hydro energy is okay but then again it cannot possibly cover all the energy demands. Not to mention, some countries do not have the geographical basis for it.