This is a specious and misleading argument on several counts. Plutonium is not economical - in fact, costs have gone up over time. Moreover, improvements in technology have made wind energy economical in some circumstances already. In addition, breeder reactors are not even a sound energy strategy for energy independence, as our analysis shows. In comparison to plutonium, renewable energy sources have received a far smaller share of public resources for technological development despite the evident superiority on environmental and non-proliferation grounds.
Wind power has no routine emissions and no long-lived radioactive wastes, for instance.
One result has been that the development of renewable energy sources has been slow and halting. However, the total amount of wind power is still very small both in relation to its potential and as a fraction of total electricity generation. Nonetheless, in the last two decades, significant improvements have been made. In the 1980s, the first major wind farms were built in California, and in the 1990s, wind power developments have been significant in Denmark and Germany. Denmark has made a major difference to the development of wind power technology through its ambitious and long-range commitment to it.