Secretary of Energy Steven Chu spoke at Stanford University today. The full recording is available here (introduction begins 20 seconds in), which is also available at WhiteHouse.gov, Energy.gov, and permanent link here.
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Stephen Chu fails to mention the most important energy source for the future.
Solar Thermal with storage power plants, in particular point focusing systems such as Molten Salt Power Towers developed at US DOE funded Sandia National Laboratories and now being commercialised by Solar Reserve and Sener/Torresol
According to Sargent and Lundy review of US DOE numbers on Molten Salt Power Towers — after 8.7GW of Molten Salt Solar Thermal Power Towers installed globally the cost will be down to US 3.5c kwh (2003 money).
http://www.nrel.gov/csp/pdfs/34440.pdf
So we already have a technology ready to go — we just need to support the build out of the first 8.7GW and then the cost will be parity with new coal. The beauty of towers is they output 3x the power of troughs at sites further away from the equator.