Agree with you whole heartedly, I even went as far as to walk to university (3.5m hike, not just around the corner) so I could get in a little exercise to boot rather than taking the bus. I even shut down 2/3 of my computer screens and my amplifiers until I plan to play games (or need the real estate) or listen to music, probably saves less than 0.6kw/h per day but better than not doing it.

Solar power has seen some really huge developments with hot salt plants which can provide power at night too, but as far as I am aware only one of these exists (don't keep up with it) and they cost a fortune to build, far more than a fossil fuel plant so places where they would work such as India are highly unlikely to be building them any time soon.

Wind farms I love the idea of, but although they get a lot of support from climate activists, conservationists are consistently halting their production in the UK. Only in the last 10 days did a major contract get lost to a foreign nation because activists protested against building the turbines on non protected land because it "looked nice".....how nice is our land going to look when people can't even afford to drive and see it? Seen as they know much more about the land than the government does, why can't THEY make plans to install the turbines elsewhere in collaboration with the government rather than forcing them to spend years finding new areas.

The fact remains that the western world is too accustomed to it's electronic lifestyle to move backwards, and we have less than 100 years in order to find a viable alternative: Fusion power is planned to be at production phases within this time, but that doesn't mean the majority of our societies could afford to pay the ever increasing energy bills in the mean time. Until then, in my opinion, nuclear power can provide us with the stop gap needed to reach this point, and with careful planning between our governments and the industry, we can handle the toxic by-products in a safe and controled environment which will protect humans, wildlife and the environment until it becomes safe (Yes I realise this is in around 100,000 - 500,000 years).