phlamethrower on 02 July 2009
| mrstickball said: Why not save the hundreds of billions of dollars by using coal/oil/nuclear, and use the extra funds for research, rather than use all the money to pour into inefficient poor technology? |
Of course, that's the most practical and cost-efficient way of doing it (and im sure that eventually a private group will find a breakthrough in technology like always), but in doing so it would give the power to business and the private sector, and Congress isn't willing to give the power up.
I think that it would be great that someday everything will run on solar and alternate resources, but in the time being it is too cost-ineffective for the average consumer. I mean it's still $6 a watt for solar panels last time I checked, which is extremely expensive compared to petroleum/nuclear.
