I take it you have never heard of diversity of supply?
How many species of plant are there? 😀
With a bit of imagination, could probably get a lichen to squeeze out some free energy for juicing your ipod. Imagine what they could do with the rainforest, if they weren’t chopping it all down on behalf of McDonald’s, Rio Tinto and pals
On top of that, on a planet that’s 3/4 water, odd that tidal hasn’t had more investment, especially when we live on an island…
Keeping the diversity theme, rather than transporting oil, gas and fossil fuels all over the joint (burning more oil, gas and fossil fuels in the process) and squabbling about who controls the oil and gas market with weapons of mass destruction (burning more oil, gas and fossil fuels in the process), why not have an international grid, utilizing global diversity in climate to exploit natural, clean and sustainable energy?
Solar, Geothermal, Wind; it’s all there for the taking, but profit is soooo very important and balls to the grandkids