Fusion power is the REAL answer. Write your Congresscritters and tell them to earmark more money for research. For more info go to:
ITER - the way to new energy OR
Department of Energy - Fusion
"...Write your Congresscritters and tell them to earmark more money for research...."
If the possibilities of a successful venture in this area exist, why not allow the traditional American economic approach, which is to allow investors to decide, and in effect, buy a lottery ticket...
...and let the lottery winners keep their money.
We could call it, oh, how about 'capitalism'?
"A basic tenet of American capitalism is that supply precedes demand, as can be see in the case of all airports being closed down: the long lines of people unable to get to their destinations is the demand that cannot be fulfilled. This is why entrepreneurs must be given a free hand to produce, to speculate, as the building of more and more airports will lower prices, increasing demand. This is especially true in the case of new technologies.
Both high taxation and over regulation place a damper on this freedom.
“The proceeds from these speculations? the capital paid for stocks and bonds ? may seem misspent. In the long run, the results are called infrastructure, and they are what economies are built on.”
“Many European postal systems, telegraph lines and railroads were built with government money, and sometimes with insufficient capacity. But in the United States, instead of burdening taxpayers, we sell investors the equivalent of high-priced lottery tickets each time one of these technologies arrives.”
On the Contrary - In Technology, Supply Precedes Demand - NYTimes.com
So, instead of totalist thinking, the command-and-control philosophies of the current administration, how about we actually allow the free market to dictate winners and losers.
