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The ideal energy resource is solar power, preferably solar cells, since these have no moving parts to wear out; once in place they rarely need serviced, and the sun's going to be around for a long, long time. The current drawback is that mankind's current power grids are not connected and cannot distribute energy around the planet so that cloudy areas and the night side can/could receive power from sunlit areas, requiring local energy storage systems (e.g. batteries) to suppliment energy demands during the night / cloudy days.
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There are few different angles to that question. Wind energy is better than your conventional fossil fuel energy sources, in the sense that it is less damaging to the environment and is a lot cheaper in the long run. Also, the windiest season is in winter, when most energy is used, so in that way it makes sense as well. The down side of it is that it costs quite a bit to set up initially, and there's no real way of storing the energy you produce when the wind turbine rotates. So when there's no wind, or periods of no wind, you'll won't have energy. Also, you need loads of windmills to generate a good amount of electricity, and that takes up space, and costly land =) So in some ways it is, but in others it isn't. =)
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