The Alternative Energy Matrix

[hunter]

7. I'd connect my backyard fission generator to the electric grid...

... but it'd just make the authorities suspicious and they'd come out and shut it down, and probably send me off to some institution for the criminally insane. So mostly I use it to heat my pool.

Actually I'm trying to make a point here:

The world has plenty of energy; that's not the problem. The problem is we use so much energy for silly reasons. We drive cars to our unnecessary jobs, we build leaky inefficient houses that need heating or cooling, we ship toys and trinkets all over the world, toys and trinkets that don't last and soon become toxic waste, we buy water in plastic bottles and food and drinks in containers we throw away. We reproduce as if the resources of the earth have no limit...

It's all crazy.