If the reader knows nothing about these issues this story will not fully inform. The differences between photovoltaic and concentrating are critical. PV plants can be small, placed on top of buildings, locally funded and have very little environmental impact. The huge concentrators have the problem of any huge construction. Regardless of that, these are viable ways to go forward with much less problem than nuclear. There is no such thing as "wasteland" so there is no place that big things can be built that don't bother someone or some thing. Windmills have had to evolve because earlier ones devastated birds, were seen by some as ugly (or worse) and often could not be located where most needed. That is getting better and concentrators will get better, but all of these things require lots of money and only governments can find that funding. This nation gives incredible amounts of money to nuclear generation and to coal. The Manhattan Project and the Space Race would have gotten nowhere without federal monies.