Other than man's folly and greed?

Now they are admitting meltdown and also that they have found plutionium outside the reactors - but in typical damage control are saying that the levels are "safe".  Safe plutionium levels?  There is no such thing as one tiny particle is enough to cause fatal cancer. They had best do a Chernobyl type concrete pour and encasement as soon as possible or Japan and perhaps the whole northern hemisphere could be truly fookled!

Meanwhile, just a tiny fraction of all that arid and desolate land in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico has enough sunlight falling on it to provide a large majority of the energy needs of our country into the forseeable future.

But the solutions I keep seeing presented are for the most part to have less regulations on deep water drilling (never mind how little we can trust industry to police itself or long it takes to go from exploratory drilling to actual production), use more coal, etc.  Isn't it odd to see virtually every clean renewable option for energy be labelled as inefficient and only the forms which can be controlled by industry and profitted from are touted as viable.