If there is no startup money to attract the investors, they don't know they exist. It's a no-brainer.
so you contradict your own post
btw, capital investment IS startup money
If I have a proven invention, complete with technically proven prototype, but the details sit inside my computer, I need to advertise what I've got to would-be investors. Otherwise, they do not know I exist.
You're so stupid..... You do NOT need the government! If your fucking product is viable it WILL get backing.
What these idiots are doing is rigging the market, tilting the playing field, for preferred technology that is NOT viable!
And most of it, you simpleton clod, is WORSE for the environment! Let's start with solar panels:
Dirty little secret of solar: The production of solar panels involves nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) emissions be released.
NF3 is about 17,000 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. The concentration of it in the atmosphere has increased 20 fold during the last two decades by its use in manufacturing processes. The level is increasing 11 percent per year.
The weaker CO2 stays in the atmosphere up to 100 years. NF3 stays in the atmosphere for 700 years or more.
Let's look at some of the other "alternatives:"
Dirty little secret of Hydrogen: Water Vapor is the product of combustion. Sounds great, right? But -- Water vapor is far and away the #1 greenhouse gas. This according to the IPCC and every other scientist on both sides of the issue. It's the one thing they do ALL agree on. Hmmm...
Dirty little secrets of Ethanol: Yeah, it's "cleaner" if you believe CO2 is really really bad, because it does produce less when combusted. But it also produces the definite pollutant and definite poison to all living things -- CO (Carbon Monoxide) 100 times more than gasoline! Also, it takes 1,200 gallons of water to make a gallon of this crap!
Wind power's dirty little secret: It takes 4 barrels of oil per year, per wind turbine, for the gearbox. And another five barrels for the transformer below each turbine. And these turbines leak and sling this oil. Great for the groundwater!
Multiply those figures times a million, two million wind turbines planned -- and you see why oil magnates like Pickens are pushing this. They stand to sell millions of barrels of oil!
Because you are so IGNORANT of the issues, you allow them to lead you along by your HEARTSTRINGS and you willingly eschew rational thought, critical thinking, investigation and study!
And Cap and Trade, you blithering idiot, does NOTHING at all for the environment! It merely takes money from the POOR and gives it to the RICH!
GAWD, you're an ignorant dumbass.