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US Funding Five Game-Changing Energy Projects
coondoggie writes "Taking aim at developing some progressive energy technologies the US Department of Energy said it will write a $130 million check to develop five areas, including plants engineered to replace oil, thermal power storage, rare earth alternatives and what it calls the energy equivalent of an Internet router."
Bullshit. Go back to the tea party idiot. You and your kinda are outright traitors to this nation and are responsible for the significant downturns in the US economy and standard of living of true American heroes (the working class) . You have sold the US out to the uber rich corporate elite and the nation of China. With your complete and utter religions jihad against anything remotely intelligent. You have no place in technical society and you have no place in American society. And now you are ranting against one of the few chances we have to pull this nation out of the ditch your stupidity has created. You are the enemy of the American people. Ya this is a troll but its damn worth it.
Which is why public policy should be directed to intercede.
And do what? The ignorance in that statement is remarkable. Public policy is asked to spend vast sums of money, without understanding what the problems are.
The public is short-sighted, like the markets that supply their fuel and "choose" which technologies to pursue.
There we go. A system that works. Why squander our wealth on mandarins when we can encourage far sighted entrepreneurs to find solutions for us?
We can see the storm coming on the horizon, but when you've got so many people looking straight up, seeing the sun and proclaiming there's no danger it's hard to react to a future that many experts know is coming.
I like how the experts "know" the future is coming, they might even be right! I can't help but snort at the fantasy of the "storm on the horizon" coupled with your desire to use public policy to acknowledge your superstitions. This is the very essence of confirmation bias.
We can either make tough choices now that will lead to a somewhat painful but tolerable transition period, or wait and do the same things in haste and agony.
You obviously do not understand the merits of wait then act. And "haste and agony" is a common product of public policy. The Obama administration, for example, both has engineered a ban of incandescent lightbulbs and a ludicrous increase in the required gas mileage for auto manufacturers via CAFE.
We are in for a bleak future, because a small section of society has a vested interest in doing nothing and they have fully convinced roughly half of us that doing anything about it is an affront to their liberty. They'll pay in the end, we all will.
As long as we don't feed your delusions, it'll probably turn out ok. Freedom is important and we'll just need to make some sacrifices for that. Controlling the Earth's thermostat or whatever you think the problem is just isn't that important.