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I don't see fully built windmills dropping out of the sky and hooking themselves up to the grid, for free. Do you? I don't see massive factories churning out solar cells (which is quite polluting) to pop into vast solar electric combines.
What I do know is that everyone wants someone else to provide for them. Someone else, somewhere else to drill for oil and mine for coal and build those scary nuclear plants. But everyone else is somewhere else. And the Army Corps of Engineers has already stated that for the most part every significant source of hydroelectric power in the US has already been dammed. So unless Salonfranciscans plan on freezing in the dark, hungry with the rest of us, there is no someone else somewhere else to bear that burden so that middle class urban hipster types can blog at Starbucks about what filthy philistines the rest of us are for objecting.
Since everything so far is a horrible idea, and, the last time I checked, you can't plug your tofu hybrid car into Mother Gaia, I'd love to hear what other suggestions anyone actually has.
And if your objection is something about instant gratification then I suggest the problem is with you and not the rest of everyone else. It's pretty childish for a gaggle of seemingly educated people to object to anything new aka 'progress' just because Santa Che won't deliver it tomorrow on his Marxist sled full of slave free toys. Ok so it won't drop prices 'tomorrow'. Folding your arms and stamping your feet seems hardly a useful alternative.
