It is truely sad that barely 6 months have passed since 3000+ of our citizens were slaughtered on our own soil in a plot masterminded by a "religious" zealot funded by oil money. And our so-called "leadership" wages a global war on terrorism in order to maintain our energy dependence on these same terrorist sponsoring nations.
As I said above:
"The U.S. has vast supplies of coal, shale oil, and other hydrocarbons which are currently too expensive to use--or prohibited by idiotic environmental regs. Not to mention the potential of methane clathrates (methane hydrates) which are known to contain more energy then all of the proven oil and gas reserves on the planet. All we need to do is figure out how to get at it...it sits on the sea bed, to depths of many meters."
In other words, we have the resources now--and vastly more in potential--if we would only stop refusing to exploit them. No silly scheme based on dilute energy sources (solar, wind, et al) is needed.
--Boris