Nuclear power plants are clean and less expensive to deliver, but they have an ugly side effect:  toxic wastes with 1,000 year life spans that must be stored in secure fascilities at tax payer expense.  If the total cost were considered, it wouldn't pencil out so well. 

 

 

INEEL is working on a solar film that has incredible potential but it needs to be safely harnessed before being made widely available.

 

Solar tiles and paint are available and street legal solar golf carts to get you around.  Consumers don't need the government to shift away from an oil based economy.  On the news the other night a women with a solar roof showed her electric bill drop from 300+ to $14 in the same month a year later.  She said that she saved $1,000 a year and the system would be paying for itself soon.  However, she said the system cost $50,000 ---fifty years is not soon.  The up front costs of solar have always been prohibitive.   If she installed in back in the 80's;  that tech works but is really cumbersome, maybe it is soon, for her.