From nuclear power plants creating waste that needs to be stored for centuries, to purpose-built solar farms taking up acres of land that could be better used for other things, there just has to be a better way. Introducing, the Usher Loop.
In addition to the conventional generators explained in the video above, the Usher Loop is based on the Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generator, which is a proven, functional technology. However, MHDs as they are currently known have technical limitations that prevent them from being used as stand-alone devices¹.
How it works:
A gear pump moves a substance called emulsified copper at high speed through a pipeline, where an electric current is induced into it by a magnet taking advantage of the enhanced conductivity and large amount of active surface area among all of the microscopic metal particles, and the electric current is transferred to a cathode.
This allows for the electric current to be used by whatever load is implemented into the circuit. When the electric current has been used by the load it is then fed back into the loop via an anode, to form a complete circuit. 
The emulsified copper is also constantly drawn back into the intake nozzle of the gear pump by suction as well as the pressure it simultaneously creates, and the cycle is repeated. 
This is where the "Loop" part of the name comes from. This naming scheme can be compared to well-known inventions such as "Tesla coil" and "Bunsen burner".
MHD power generation had been tested extensively in the 1960s with liquid metals and plasmas as conductors, but the technology needed to manufacture spherical copper powder, called atomization², as well as the method needed to manufacture emulsified copper, did not exist in the 1960s, and thus a version of an MHD utilizing it could not have been built and tested in that era.
Copper is much more electrically conductive than the liquid metals used by themselves in the 1960s tests, and thus the inclusion of it in the Usher Loop makes it more powerful by default. Of course, there may be skeptics of this theory as with any other new concept, but the simple fact of the matter is that nobody can know for sure that it wouldn't work, because this exact design has never been tested before. This is comparable to Thomas Edison using different materials as filaments in his own light bulbs. The idea of the light bulb already existed prior to Edison's experiments, but he improved on it and created the light bulb as it is known today.