New Mexico, wake up!

Renewable is too expensive:
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When it comes to energy, density is the most important criteria to consider. Yes, there are other considerations but when you have energy sources like uranium and thorium that are one million to two million more energy dense than all other equivalent energy sources; coal, oil, gas, wind, solar, biofuels, geothermal, hydro, wood, and any other creative and innovative way to generate electricity, why would you ever consider anything else.
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I will attempt to make it understandable why nuclear energy, once discovered 100 years ago, was always going to be the future energy solution for a clean, safe, cheap, abundant, sustainable fuel source on earth and even on the moon. For the last 70 years, nuclear power generation has been the safest energy for humanity and the environment. The initial fuel source of uranium was mined and enriched to be used in the first three generations of nuclear reactors, the solid fuel water cool reactors. These reactors produced ~trillions of megawatts of electricity and manufactured enough unused nuclear fuel to be stored for the next generation of liquid fueled molten salt reactors that will last thousands of years at current electricity usage.
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There are basically two formats (paths) of energy fuels; those that are already stored, or easily stored, for anytime access and those that are real-time and have to be used immediately in a onetime pass through process. Stored fuels like coal oil, natural gas, uranium, thorium, geothermal and water retain their energy indefinitely or until it is accessed and used.
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Real-time fuels like wind, solar and wave are available at point of capture and have to be use immediately for electricity and in some cases can be temporarily stored in batteries. Real-time fuels therefore require very large swath of land or sea to erect massive mechanical structures to capture enough wind or sun to provide electricity, weather permitting for the masses in urban population centers. Backups for this intermitted production can be provided temporarily from batteries or a more permanent basis with nature gas turbines or other stored fuel systems like nuclear, hydro, oil, coal and even wood.
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Real-time energy is proving to be a very expensive electricity generation process because of all the raw material and real estate required to erect wind, solar or wave farms for industrial and commercial use. The weather dependent intermittency requires stored fuel backup systems and adds a redundant cost.