How large a role will wind and solar play in our emerging energy landscape? At the heart of that debate lies the question as to whether these renewable technologies (whose fuel is free unlike the extractive fuels costs of both fossils and nuclear power) will expand the way other extractive energy sources have, or the way that other new technologies have. Consider these three factual statements side by side: 1) wind and solar today represent less than 5% of the energy the worl