[Reynoldo]

I can’t remember hearing anyone say that wind will take care of all of our energy needs.

[Adder]

the general public has some “major” misconceptions

No, you greenies have the misconceptions about wind and solar being THE answer if only we tax oil and coal to oblivion. Don’t now say the public has misconceptions: it was your screaming that forced them there.

Grown ups know some days the sun don’t shine and the wind don’t blow. But fire burns a lot if different carbon based fuels.

[SpaceBar]

Some years ago, back in the GW days when I was a fresh freeper, and all the greenies wanted to run the entire country on switchgrass, I calculated that the entire combined annual outputs of palm oil from Malaysia and Indonesia would supply US domestic motor fuel needs for under three weeks. And they grow that stuff like it’s going out of style, and have optimal climates to do so.

[RayChuang88]

A real energy revolution will happen if the molten salt reactor that Alvin Weinberg tested a Oak Ridge National Laboratories in the 1960's could be scaled up to a commercial reactor--something that several companies around the world are trying to find out. If it does work, then we could use thorium-232--a radioactive element almost as common as lead in the soil--as a nuclear fuel, and that could essentially provide Earth's electric power needs (and far above that!) for perhaps tens of thousands of years.