With the green movement in this country, many people are looking for ways to create pollution-free energy to power our lives. Some ideas are good, and some are just pie-in-the-sky ideas that make people feel better but will not work in the real world. Without getting too deep into this, imagine where our power would come from on a windless night. It would come from the same power plants we use now. They would still have to be sized for peak load.
The only true carbon-free source of energy is nuclear power. Like many things, this is not understood by many people. People tend to dislike anything they don’t understand. There is resistance to nuclear power. One of the biggest issues is waste disposal. Nuclear fuel that’s exhausted its energy is still dangerous, and needs to be sequestered — basically forever.