I have spent whole afternoon reading the entire "log" & I have few points here;
@ Lmagic007 - I have been reading about various renewable technologies since few days. What I have found is that the main lacking factor of all these are their inability to store excess energy.
So instead of trying to improve on production of equipments that produce energy from green sources, why not try and produce better storage devices.
I did some research on storage batteries too and have been very disappointed to know that very little progress have been made since last 3 decades in this field. If this can be sorted out, all the renewable energy sources would become more viable I think.
@ Wobs - While I fully agree on your point that Nuclear is almost Zero Emisson (conditions applied) & reliable energy source, main problem here is waste treatment and safety.
This technology is successfully being used by few countries around the world but I can't imagine enough possibilities if uranium/thorium falls into hands of some of "terrorists countries"
In india few decades ago in a city named bhopal, a Union Carbide subsidiary pesticide plant released / leaked 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas, killing approximately 3,800 people (many more people are still affected by the same) More at..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
If the same happens with nuclear power plant results might be much more far reaching.
@ Adi - I think that the action you took now was needed a bit earlier but we have a proverb in India "Der aaye par durust aye" (Better late than never)