Future Trends: Electrical Power Generation

Early 2012: The human population's energy consumption is going through the roof, and no one seems to care much about how much they use it.

The solution seems to be one of these, with #1 being more likely to happen:

1) Build more Nuclear power plants
Will likely last us for a very long while, but is dangerous at the moment. Liquid Fluoride Thorium reactor technology seems to be taking off due to its inability to cause a meltdown, which is the major reason current nuclear power technology is so (relatively) scarce. So, if this tech doesn't kick off very quickly, the next choice is to...

2) Invest in Solar Cell research
The population grows rapidly, and unless we start building space solar farms, there's no way we'll be able to keep up with the energy demands, unless...

3) People actually start thinking about how they use their energy or discover and develop new types of energy sources.