Energy is local

Really, that's what I think. Were that all that a blog post necessitates, I'd be a very happy (albeit lazy) young man. However, that's not the case, so I'll explicate. I think the technology for most "clean" or "green" energy is fairly viable. That is, this sort of technology is readily available and it works well. However, much of this energy is only viable for certain areas of the world. For example, though the technology for wind-driven power is very good, only places that are windy can actually use this as a useful power source. Although wind turbines give a lot of energy when they run, the amount of time that they could actually be running in the southeast would put the startup costs far out of line of the potential profits from generated energy, making wind a bad option for renewable power in the Southeast. However, because of the abundance of rivers in the Southeast, hydroelectric becomes a much more viable clean power source there, where in the dry Great Plains it isn't at all. So really, it all boils down to this, do what you can with what you've got. Here's a link to the great Southeastern hydroelectric dam system, the TVA.