Apparently some energy companies are using offshore wind turbines to create hydrogen gas from the electrolysis of seawater, which overcomes the storage problem associated with wind.
A large number of people don't seem to like wind turbines and see them as ugly; however, I would posit that the Venn diagram of those who don't like like turbines and don't like modern art is almost a perfect circle of intersection.
A study has shown that painting one blade of a wind turbine black reduces the chances of killing birds by 72%, but does nothing for preventing domestic cats killing birds.
There's a lot of geothermal used in a number of countries to harness the heat from the Earth's core, but surely using the earth's own heat will merely hasten the cooling of the Earth's core.... It's not an inexhaustible supply, when you consider aeons.
That said, there's a heat source that many haven't considered - the heat produced by Global Warming itself. Turn wind farm turbines into massive air-source heat pumps to capture atmospheric heat for steam turbines to generate electricity, Then the climate denying fossils can continue burning fossil fuels to their hearts' content, paying more and more for their power while we who use renewable energy pay less and less, at their expense. There would still be the problem of pollution though, but only from a very small proportion of the population.
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