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Sure. Or pressurize massive cylinders of inert gas, or separate water into hydrogen.
I'm all in favor of bright people and entrepreneurial zeal but if mom is sitting at home and needs the power to run her medical device to keep her alive I'd like pretty high confidence there's a stable grid.
Obviously new power sources will come. I just don't think ole A. Gore can wave his magic wand and everything will be wonderful.
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We already HAVE *existing* technology that's cleaner than fossil fuel power. Nuclear fission. Hydro. Wind. Solar. Geothermal. It's a question of IMPLEMENTATION and ENGINEERING at this point, not research of the same level that produced the atom bombs.
Stable grid? Use nuclear for base load. Hell, keep a few fossil plants for peaking load in emergencies.
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So, do we think there is some entity out there who is wise enough for us to let them spend $50 Billion to develop green energy, particularly when there is quite possibly 100+ years of existing energy using conventional means?
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Better than spending ... oh ... several trillion on murdering brown people in the Middle East for the sake of "oil suckurinety." And don't think this won't continue, even with domestic oil sources.
If green energy development and conversion can be done for $50 billion ($166 per citizen), that's chump change and money damned well spent. Of course, a good Christian like you probably thinks the heathen bastids in certain countries had it coming, so one can't really argue with you.