Even people who know almost nothing about alternative energy know this: when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow, there's no energy to be collected.
But they are no slower to develop than most alternatives and almost certainly faster than nuclear.
It certainly beats almost every alternative.
For one thing, on some routes, there is almost no alternative to United.
Gash said the row revealed that there were almost no alternative suppliers for the tagging contracts.
For Deakin, trees are almost an alternative society, and timber is the reserve currency of his imaginative life.
Anyway, he acknowledges that "almost any alternative voting scheme now on offer is likely to be better than first past the post".
As Lozowick puts it, "True peace without the settlements would be preferable to almost any alternative, if only someone would offer it to us".
For mid-century Americans, these gleaming marketplaces provided an almost utopian alternative to the urban commercial district, an artificial downtown with less crime and fewer vermin.
Jerusalem is almost an alternative national anthem … yet there in that cottage he was arrested and accused of sedition," said Heath.
