Nuclear vs. renewables

According to this report, renewable energy output is almost equal to nuclear energy output in the U.S. of A.

“Members of the incoming Congress are proposing to slash cost-effective funding for rapidly expanding renewable energy technologies while foolishly plowing ever-more federal dollars into the nuclear power black hole,” said Ken Bossong, Executive Director of the SUN DAY Campaign.

My question is still with scale. Bringing a new nuke plant online can provide enough energy for a significant portion of a moderate-size urban area. How many acres of fields, miles of solar panels in the desert, hundreds of windmills, or new waterfalls (hard to come by these days) are the equivalent of that? Now, I admit that biofuels is probably a growth industry, because I think that the internal combustion engine will still be the dominant vehicular transportation power source for decades to come. The capacity of burnable liquid fuels in a regular-sized vehicle compared to batteries still tilts heavily in the favor of the liquid fuels. But I think you're going to need power input at some stage in the biofuel processing stream (the first and second laws of thermodynamics and all that), so nuclear has a part to play in that as well as a home and industrial power source.

Here's some more on this:

Renewables Share of Energy Rises, Almost Catching up with Nuclear Power


Malaysian take (from a reader, not a professional, I don't think):
The case against nuclear energy

This is an issue for the 21st Century's teen years, obviously.