>Why should we create energy from something so complicated and hard to control when we have something simple and easy to grasp like water, solar and windpower?

>Why should we create energy from something so complicated and hard to control when we have something simple and easy to grasp like water, solar and windpower? I think because it's way more expensive than having a mixed source of energy. The issue is what are we able to give up for having energy? Air pollution? Security that I don't get blown in a nuclear plant explosion (the fear is always there it seems...) ? Money? I think that nuclear energy is not bad, it's just a transition, as the parent comment said. And it's a better transition than coal.