What should be done is a prize should be given with an outrageous amount of money attached to those who can come up with provable, easy and cheap to implement forms of renewable energy. The winners would collect their prize as well as hang on to a certain amount of patent rights. One restriction should be however that these technologies can not be shared with foreign powers until the US is converted off oil. That'll piss of the French. I have great faith in our private industry and feel this problem can be solved with a little push in the right direction.