For a culture so advanced in technology ,why are there no alternate energy sources?
Now before I start let me define what I am talking about more.The three letter word oil ,instead of fighting over oil,the money used to fight,could it not be better used to create a alternate to oil with todays advanced technology..I know there has been alternates the electric car and ethanol.
But what generation is it going to be that makes the changes,to push for a better cleaner fuel.We have the resource when will it be that we are going to utilize those resources?
Let me clarify something also,todays society has put money above all else.We need to work harder to provide a better future for our next generations instead of just doing for ourselves.For we will soon perish from this earth,but will the future be doing or undoing what we should be doing is the question?
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November 13th, 2009 at 3:39 am
Wow, a bunch of conspiracy kooks here today. Don’t you think that if there was the magic carbuerator out there, that its inventor wouldn’t be satisfied to have it suppressed by ‘BIG OIL’? Besides, in all of history. the great inventions were generally being worked on in parallel by different inventors, but you’ve only ever heard of the one who ‘got there first’. Nobody knows who ALMOST invented the telegraph, etc. So to suppress ALL inventors of the magic carb just seems silly.
Of all the posts before mine, Tim has it right. Oil is still cheaper. Or maybe more expensive in the short run, but it takes a lot of time to develop alternatives. Various administrations have used YOUR tax money to encourage energy development. I was in Colorado when the Oil Shale boom was going on…ok it’s still oil, but since it cost way more than pumping it out of the ground, it was shut down as soon as the gov’t money went away. Same with independent cogen operators; in the absence of tax breaks and PURPA legislation to force utilities to buy their surplus power at the utilities’ avoided cost, you got nothing.
Ethanol? Uses 2 gallons of precious fresh water to produce 1 gallon of ethanol, and THEN you have to transport it from the grain belt by truck and deal with 50 different state standards and seasons. Don’t look to this as a magic bullet either.
As long as energy policy is in the hands of the politicians, who are more divided now than they ever have been (and I am SO tired of hearing the partisan dems whine that Bush is the great divider, what a load of crap) you’ll never have a good long range energy plan. Whoever’s running for office will craft their position around whoever can donate the most money or promise the most votes. Thats dems and reps alike.
Oh, and the guy who said that the NIMBY people will support it, just not where they can see it. He’s right too.
Bottom line, there are plenty of energy alternatives, including conservation, but politics, money, NIMBY and no long range plan are the roadblocks, not some dreamed-up conspiracy.