re: Op/Ed by U of CA Professor: Expect financial fallout when the fossil fuel bubble bursts

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What percentage for each?

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That kind of depends, doesn't it? I wouldn't recommend solar in higher latitudes, and I wouldn't recommend hydroelectric where there's no water.

I've got a friend who has a farm with a windmill, solar panels, a diesel generator, and he's connected to the local electrical co-op grid (which probably uses a combination of coal, natural gas and nuclear). He can use any of them to operate a pump to bring up well water. He'll even use a mule for traction occasionally. He's not one of these energy freaks that thinks it all has to be hydrocarbons/nuclear, or it all has to be wind/solar. He prefers the robustness and flexibility of redundancy.