There has been some success storing wind/solar power by "storing" it in reservoirs. (this is unclear, they pump large amounts of water, which can then be used to provide steady energy when the 'wind don't blow, and the sun don't shine') That being said this is geographically infeasable in most places, and as has been stated the only solid source for baseline power is Nuclear Power. The problem this poses lies first in the prohibitive cost in building such a facility, second in ass-backwards BabyBoomers who live in perpetual fear of some sort of nuclear holocaust (we X and Y types are generally more reasonable in this regard), and lastly but certainly not leastly is the problem of waste disposal. With the yucca mountain facility (the only long term high grade waste storage facility in ANY stage of construction) being blocked by a certain senator from nevada, this problem is only getting worse. Even if the Yucca site gets built on schedule (2018 last i checked), the 110 odd nuclear power plants in the United States alone should have generated enough waste to fill such a facility by 2014. This waste is currently stored ABOVE GROUND onsite at many plants, as their 'temporary' holding ponds fill up. Granted, vitrification of waste would improve the situation, filtering out much low grade waste, and leaving the nasties in a more stable ( or at least less drippy) state. Before we go on a rampage we need to get a grip on our existing problems, leaving this stuff laying about is a serious risk. Pebble bed reactors, which run on unenriched fuel, can be valuable in future enterprises but have little to no effect on our current situation. I don't want to wax on for thirty pages here, as i might be inclined to do in a more academic (less conversational) setting. But I'll leave it at this, transportation aside, small efforts on the part of consumers (photovoltaic panels, geothermal heat suppliments, greywater utilization, and some wind turbines in those cornfields *i only add this to reserve some power (pun intended) for the masses) combined with a responsible nuclear power industry would easily provide us with plenty of energy for home and industrial usage.