Energy Production and Use Graphics: Sankey Diagrams of the World, Germany, and France.

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5. Wind and Solar are certainly sustainable forms of energy - and economical.

Nuclear energy cannot compete without massive direct and indirect government subsidy. In this sense, nuclear energy is not sustainable in most economies. This is what has prevented nuclear energy's long term growth, and not "anti-nuke" sentiment. The market is not sentimental; it is merely efficient. Sadly, that efficiency, along with the market's ability to hide external costs, has favored fossil fuels to this point, but renewable energy is finally overcoming the inertia and it is clear we are at a turning point toward a sustainable future.