At night with no wind and no one can go to work in the morning because their electric car battery was sucked dry by the grid. Can you say national holiday?<br><br>Do these uneducated eco nuts not understand that it takes raw materials to make solar cells and batteries and that the little windmills take an incredible amount of maintainance to keep them running. Nothing comes for free. The technologies are great for small scale uses but they don't scale up to national grid standards. Maybe someday, about the same time we get fusion power. Isn't that just 30 years in the future? We have been told that it is just 30 years in the future for more then 50 years.<br><br>Don't get me wrong, we need to continue research on improving ALL sources of energy and being more efficient in our usage. Still the best RENEWABLE least polluting energy resource we have is hydro power.