I'm with you. I make no forced effort to conserve electricity because I work hard to live in comfort. I earn the right to be warm in winter and cool in summer. If I pay for it, I deserve to have it. Oh, sure I'll turn off lights in unused rooms, etc., but that's about as far as I'm willing to go.
Windmill farms are good for "feel-good" generation and they make for good political feeling of accomplishment. In my area where a typical household requires a 200 amp service, that's a lot of windmills just to even attempt at simply supplementing the demand.
We've got a third reactor in the planning stages at our local nuclear facility (Lake Anna, Virginia). Of course it will be years before such a reactor will actually come on line, but at least the POCO here has the guts to get it in the works. Everyone here is so scared of political correctness. When this reactor does come on-line, it will hopefully mean more jobs, more stability to our local income and our ability to continue to enjoy low electricity rates.
Solar? Great idea for domestic hot water heating, but that's about it. Don't get me wrong: That does save a lot of energy and the cost for solar water heating is much lower than trying to generate electricity from it.
Hydro? Mother Nature is practically begging us to utilize this free resource, but the politicians have to make sure that we don't harm the "fishies". I assure you, the fish will adapt; wildlife is a lot smarter than we think.
