What is the ideal renewable energy source?

[Hamloc]

I would say hydro power, nuclear or possibly modular thorium reactors. I really think solar and wind have to much variability.

[mcfarms]

Put a few select members of this forum in a room and capture all their hot air to run turbines?

[blackpowder]

We'll continue researching butterfly wings and fairy farts until nat gas more expensive. Then build reactors.

[may-be]

IMHO unfortunately if someone had the answer I'm sure the powers that be will not let it live unless they profit greatly.

free-energy.ws/nikola-tesla

If you do not know about Nikola Tesla it is because the big power companies made sure his name died. This genius had over 700 patents. He made Niagara Falls and the power grid we use today. He invented the electrical motor, many appliances, radio waves, remote control, x-ray, helicopters and torpedoes to name a few. This guy was gifted with visions that he could see in his mind in 3d. When he died in 1943 the US government stold all his documents and told his family and everyone they were nothing and thrown them away or said lost.

This person is worth while reading about.

[tweety]

And how is your DIY home fusion kit coming along?
I'd agree that any of the nuclea options will end up being the solutions eventually, bu onl after after wast billions and years exploring all other options

None of those things were in your original questions' criteria.

Fusion holds more promise then anything known to man today.

In regards to tidal, there are lots of great ideas for wave power utilizing hydraulic accumulation. Dead simple with a huge float in the waves connected to an arm connected to a piston pump, cranks over a generator.

Tidal underwater generators are installed all over the world, are much simpler then wind with almost no maintenance. Also starting to be installed in rivers.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

None of those things were in your original questions' criteria.

Fusion holds more promise then anything know to man today.

I didn't list nuclear, because it is not considered as renewable by the green zealots.

Governments in peaceful countries aren't subsidising fusion, at least not to the degree that they are the other green power sources, even though it is well proven that it the only source currently capable of replacing fossil fuels. Which is part of my original question, why did PV and wind become the technologies of choice for government subisdies, as opposed to all the other options? If one were to follow the money, what would you learn?

[tweety]

I didn't list nuclear, because it is not considered as renewable by the green zealots.

Governments in peaceful countries aren't subsidising fusion, at least not to the degree that they are the other green power sources, even though it is well proven that it the only source currently capable of replacing fossil fuels. Which is part of my original question, why did PV and wind become the technologies of choice for government subisdies, as opposed to all the other options? If one were to follow the money, what would you learn?

Don't confuse fission with fusion

[fjlip]

In short - it has yet to be discovered. We are just one generation in the long history of mankind and it is totally disingenuous for any of us to think we know everything about anything. Remember the communicators in Star Trek? Now correlate that to flip phones just a couple of decades later.

Yup, Star Trek, will be the savior, Di-Lithium Crystals=Warp engines= wicked power=unimaginable speed!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Don't confuse fission with fusion

Not confusing, just lumping them together because they have the same stigmas attached

[tweety]

Not confusing, just lumping them together because they have the same stigmas attached

Not even close. Fission is non renewable