Truly Sustainable Power is only on a Personal Level

     O.K. here is an issue that goes both ways on both sides. Obviously sustainable power means it can be sustained. Coal, natural gas and other non renewable resources have been known to cause issues for the environment, despite their cost advantages. Oil is not just unsustainable because it is a fossil fuel, it is also a fuel that comes from outside the U.S. We don't need to worry about making alternatives cheaper by providing subsidies from the government, it will sort itself out itself. Call me an optimist, but as fossil fuels get harder and harder to find and remove from the ground, it will naturally get more expensive to get at. We are already seeing this with "Fracking" and removing crude oil from shale. They are getting more environmentally destructive, they are also several orders of magnitude more expensive.
     As alternatives get more advanced and cheaper to utilize, we will see their displacing fossil fuels.  With the advances in battery technology, which by the way is advancing faster than the news can report it, the problems of storing power like wind and solar will sort itself out.
     One of the problems with the current way of looking at alternatives is that it is being implemented in the same way we have always seen power generation. On a truly massive scale. That alone causes all kinds of problems that need to be sorted out. There is another way. A way that would mean we don't have to wait for the government or anybody else.
     We can start by adding battery backups in our houses, or if you have an electric car, it can double as your battery backup. Then you can put solar power on your roof and maybe a small wind turbine on your roof or in the back yard. Even on a suburban scale, it is possible to generate your own power. So of you have an EV, you can make your own fuel for transportation uses, and your own power for home use, and now you can eliminate whatever you spend on gasoline, natural gas and even electricity.
     Granted, all of this takes money to do to start out, but remember this. This is now just starting to take off. So like the EV, home power generation from solar or wind will start to come down  in cost as it starts to take off and get more widely accepted. So if you can't afford it now, just wait. The future will bring the cost down for us and we can all be energy independent of not just other countries, but of other people as well. Then brownouts and blackouts will be a thing of the past.