Reply #6: Wind and solar are stop-gap solutions at best

[NickB79]

As are biomass and bio-diesel. All of these alternative energy supplies, even if fully implemented, are incapable of replacing even 50% of current oil demand today, much less ten years from now when energy demands are even higher. Nuclear or coal are the only major energy sources left that could take up the slack a lack of oil would produce. As several posters here have argued quite intelligently in a number of posts, nuclear power is far preferable to increased coal burning. Fusion would be even more preferable, but that has been 20 yrs away for the past 40 yrs. We have a suitable replacement in nuclear power, but the fear of nuclear power is preventing new plants from being built until we're deep into a massive energy crunch.