Which type of energy source would you prefer to see installed the most?

[Redalgo]

I like nuclear for being a potential source of baseload power to phase out coal. The reactors are almost always online and producing at capacity relative to most energy sources, might be quite a bit cheaper if state funds provided the upfront capital for reactor construction and streamlined the licensing process by building the plants in batches sharing identical designs (whereas now in the States each design tends to be different and requires a lot of burdensome bureaucratic oversight to green-light), and such. The hardest part of this would be overcoming the NIMBY factor involved.

Setting aside my interest in the potential viability of fusion reactors someday, I suspect a lot of the fission plants would run on thorium at some point - which has a much smaller environmental impact and no melt-down potential. Contemporary reactor designs seem to be as they are at least in part because early research was guided toward methods of producing materials suitable for military uses. Mind you, I do not oppose the development and implementation of other sources of energy, but nuclear energy is what I envision as picking up most of the slack that we would be left with from incrementally driving fossil fuels into disuse. *nods*