How about a Prairie National Renewable Energy Conservation Park.  Where 1000s of huge wind plants spin over a renewed prairie filled with delicious free roaming organic buffalo?

Eat the healthy buffalo meat in lieu of cornfed, unhealthy, feedlot beef.  Use the wind electricity to stop greenhouse gas emmision.  

Enjoy the prairie.   Forever.

The wind plants will be dismatled, removed, and recycled after their useful life of  40 years. 

By then who knows what will provide power?  90% efficient solar panels?  Fusion?  

 At least we will hand off stewardship of a planet earth back in greenhouse gas balance by using wind (and solar, and hydrokinetic power)in the next 4 decades.  Rather than fossil fuel combustion based energy.

http://scientificactivist.blogspot.com/2006/02/nuclear-power-play.html

Well Nick there is a compromise that I have discovered, after many go arounds on nuclear power on various venues.

How about letting the nuclear industry build a few waste processing reactors at Yucca Mountain.  The waste needs to be dealt with anyway.

If they can operate safely, efficiently, and agree to real regulation instead of industry self regulation, then more plants can be considered.

The tradition  of contamination and corruption in the past government/industry operation needs to be eliminated before widespread nuclear power buildout occurs.  Trust must be restored.

Of course this will mean only a few new plants are built in the next decade.  It will be 10 years until they are proven to be safe and safely and economically operated.

Meanwhile that leaves nuclear fission out of the global climate change cure for awhile.  Hundreds of new plants would need to be built to have any signifigant effect.

After 10 years of power generation and waste processing, the lessons learned should be applied to new designs and new nuclear plants should then compete without subsidies with other clean power generatinmg technologies on long term cost, including any fuel requirements and future waste disposal costs.

This is a compromise that environmentalists may be able to  live with, providing subsidies now in place for coal, nuclear, and fossil fuel power are eliminated.

And a substantial portion  of those savings are put into temporary subsidies for wind, solar,and  wave power, large scale electrical energy storage, geothermal heat pump heating and cooling, and conversion from internal combustion transportation to battery electric vehicles.