Yesterday on NPR's To The Point with Warren Olney, there was a discussion between two sides of this issue, the Bush administration view and a renewable energy view. The woman defending Bush and the oil/gas/nuclear/coal interests tried to argue that solar energy only works when the sun is out and nuclear is "reliable" which is what consumers want. The woman didn't even understand the technology of solar power and kept promoting the idea of "reliability" of fossil fuels. Duh, we just had a blackout, lady, of a grid run by fossil fuels and nuclear energy. When the opposing side pointed out that solar technology includes storage of energy, nuclear waste disposal is still a major problem and that nuclear plants can fail, (hear of Chernobyl?) there was still this blind mantra repeated that renewable energy doesn't work. There are a number of countries around the world using alternative energy that could deny that claim. Our oil/gas/nuclear/coal power companies have a grip on our infrastructure, so it will take some time and political will to change things.