“At what point will this technology pay off and no longer need tax dollars to get it started and prop it up?”
Solar power as well as any power that can be generated by water is probably a good thing. It’s a resource that is forever.
When I living in South Dakota, students at the school of Mines & Tech created an engine that got over 100 miles per gallon. The newspapers heralded it as a major breakthrough.
A couple of weeks later the engine was gone and the students were not talking. The press didn’t say a thing.
The only way in our lifetimes will we see anything other then the combustion engine is when environmentalists and business sit down together to discuss how we can best do this. Where business can continue to make the profits they are used to and the environment gets cleaner.
Really, there is no incentive for business to do it with the mandated government regulations that prohibit businesses from investment in these energy sources.
They didn't want to admit they had been fooled again.
Do you have a source link for this?
Say what? If students at one school can be brilliant and invent something, surely students in another school can do the same, your conspiracy theories notwithstanding.
A couple of weeks later the engine was gone and the students were not talking. The press didn’t say a thing."
Yep, years ago a guy I know was getting about 60 mpg from his new diesel truck.
He stopped talking about it after his buddies stopped adding fuel to his tank.