Properly built and managed distribution networks, along with utility scale battery storage.
> And China builds nuclear plants a lot faster and cheaper than we do, and no known accidents.
Yet. China still gets more power from wind than nuclear, and they're building out wind generation capacity far faster than nuclear: http://www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2015/highlights5...
> Maybe we can learn something from them.
Indeed. When you're an authoritarian regime, you can operate more fluidly "at scale" (fuck you, I do what I want).
> Plus the whole 90% of a nuclear plant's cost is servicing the debt.
And yet, someone has to pony up those billions of dollars. A kickstarter perhaps?
> Once completed the operational costs are a rounding error.
And when you fail hard, it costs billions of dollars to cleanup: http://www.psr.org/environment-and-health/environmental-heal...
I'll take solar and wind, thanks.