"[A]lternative energy for people who never had to take a physics class."

Will Collier at VodkaPundit has the perfect description of Solar Energy. If you're a constant reader (which you're not), you'll see that I have been critical of these "miracle cures" previously.

There is no cheap substitute for billions of years of solar, geothermal, and gravitational energy distilled into an easily transportable, fairly stable storage medium (these would be the evil oil, coal, & LNG). Sorry.

TANSTAAFL