...unless we learn to think outside the box a leetle further than we do now.

SOlar concentration, in the whole south half of the country, can generate enough steam to make a Stirling-driven generator dance, if the other side is cooled by -- just for one example -- a buried radiator twenty feet down, or some other effective heat exchanger.

Not enough noise being made about that.

Nano tech might be a path to completely resolving the spent-fuel-rod issue, I dunno.

They're making a solar paint, in prototype. There is the planet's biggest pump passing overhead on a 28.6-day cycle. The atmosphere erupts in lightning bolts thousands of times a day around the girdle of the globe. The winds never stop blowing in some places. And it is possible that space itself is a limitless source of energy, according to some theories.

Plenty to do, not enough hard work getting it done.

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