Instead, it has to be realized that the progress away from fossil fuels will be incremental and pushing people too hard towards those solutions will not work unless the solutions are affordable and can exist without being propped up by exterior funding such as capital investment and taxpayer money. Eventually, there will need to be a genuine profit motive involved or it just will not happen (Gordon)
The only real alternative that has established any sort of network of suppliers and such is Tesla but that is really only in major cities and on major interstates (Tesla). President Obama just suggested a new $10 per barrel tax on gasoline but that would be a mistake (Grunwald)
A widely publicized example was Solyndra. They received a vast amount of government largesse in the form of a giant loan and the company ended up going belly-up (Stephens, and Leonnig)
Not all reactors are equally vulnerable; the risk depends on several factors, such as reactor location and type, design and location of spent fuel reservoir, and reactor's physical security level. Removal of old, spent fuel (defined as fuel that has gone through a 3-5-year decay in the reservoir) to a safer, on-site dry cask space (or any other storage space), and eventual transfer to an off-site geologic depository can lower risks (Cochran, Paine, Fettus, Norris, & McKinzie, 2005 )
(If there are no additional measures for electricity efficiency and conservation, America's power usage will likely increase twofold by the year 2050.) (Gronlund, Lochbaum, & Lyman, 2007)
Furthermore, neither renewables nor breeder reactors (the two alternatives for unlimited supply of energy) are cost-efficient at existing fuel rates for immediately becoming the base of worldwide supply of energy. What, then, are the alternatives available for an ecological, safe, and sustainable future energy supply? If one can reduce fossil fuel consumption and burn biomass renewably for lowering emissions to less than three gigatons carbon a year, fossil fuels can become a sounder energy form than nuclear power (Makhijani, 1997)
With a growing necessity for electricity, energy-generating technologies, such as solar, hydro, wind, nuclear power, coal-fueled power, and geothermal plants, are greatly in demand. The need for novel power plants is quite imminent, but a very vital decision is identifying which technology is suitable to employ in this regard, as each technology comes with a host of advantages and shortcomings (Odell, 2011)