Reply #16: We need to tap into all our resources

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...a mile-long stretch of solar panels on a four-lane highway could take 500 homes off the grid. If the entire US Interstate system made use of the panels, energy would no longer be a concern for the country.

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/solar-panels-built-roads-could-be-future-energy

Elsewhere on DU, I read that the world would need 15,000 nuke plants to provide for our energy needs. Clearly that is an absurd idea. We need to use all the alternative methods possible.

I think geo-thermal would be a possibility in the PNWest. We have hot spots. We also have powerful tidal areas that could be used to produce power. Underwater turbines taking advantage of powerful tidal action is a real alternative, perhaps as costly initially as nuke plants but way less dangerous!