While there are plenty of great ideas for energy generation, the true challenge is taking these ideas and building the economies of scale to make them economically competitive with established energy generation technologies. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
The luddites who stick to the mantra of «nuclear power» are doing a disservice to future generations by not supporting research into new energy generation technologies. (newscientist.com)
By siphoning capital out of the area, and often out of the country where they are installed and, by hogging existing grid capacity they preclude the development of other more labour intensive renewable energy generation technologies such as bio-mass and anaerobic digestion fuelled systems. (resilience.org)