Mercedes SLS Electric Drive hooned on a track.

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We need clean energy, and windmills are not that. Solar is ok, but needs development. Flaps in the ocean??? Who comes up with this crap, anyone heard of rust?

Nuclear works, as long as it is monitored correctly, and the current envogue hiring policies that are forced by the gov't cannot be employed in a nuclear power plant. See NASA if you want to see beauracraps making something fail. There are 40yr old plants making 16% of americas power. We should be 100% powered by nuclear, and stop burning stuff to make electricity. Burning stuff is bad, for all of us.

Hybrids are not cost effective. Plug ins are a much better idea, save for driving across country. Battery tech needs to improve, I think we can all agree on that.

But charging your car battery by burning coal 5000 miles away and then transmitting that power with huge losses is just dumb. Charging your car battery via a solar panel mounted to your house is much better, no burning stuff (just as long as the factory that made the solar panel was powered by something other than a coal fired power plant.)

We need local power production to combat losses via transmission, and solar to augment that power. Will we ever get there, I do not think so.

If you want to be green (I hate that term, btw) move closer to work, or work from home. Limit your driving as much as possible, or walk/ride a bike. Turn everything off in your house when you leave, etc. Leasing a hybrid is not being green.