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Nuclear power is dangerous??? This is news to me. Nuclear fission incidents are extremely rare and the devastation is often over-sensationalised. Besides, nuclear fusion is exteremly safe and the only output is Helium I believe. That is the future of nuclear power and it how future energy may work.
Now getting back to the topic...
My Dad is head of Research and Development for one of the UKs largest construction companies. He has to know about renewable energy. He reckons that thundreds of solutions exist and some of the good ones don't publised as much which is a shame. But there are some exciting ones about. There is a green individual generator for houses that is pretty cool.
Personally I would go for solar towers, there is a lot of fuss right ow about them and rightly so. Each solar tower can power 10,000 homes and the terrain they are built on (typically desert) is waste land, which is good. The idea is to place an array of mirrors around a tower and reflect the light to a point at the top of the tower where water is heated and the resulting steam drives a turbine.
Also, in Focus (British science journal) this month it did mention this technology and also mentioned large wind turbines that in theory could produce masses of energy. basically they are ten times the size of normal ones and sit out at sea.
