Private industry research and development, and ideas are good things. Why should the exploration of ideas draw your ire and condemnation? In a free market world, ideas will rise or fall on their merit in the market place of ideas.
It doesn't cost you tax dollars for private companies to look for ways to bring new, potentially breakthrough products to market? Oh, and at the same time potentially making millions, perhaps billions of dollars for their investors?
You've got to loosen up a bit.
"You've got to loosen up a bit."
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I'm having fun, but you really have your panties in a bunch.
I would love to see a Magic Energy Supply Solution that actually works efficiently, but none in the last 30 years have stuck.
Solar panels on your house; those windmill energy sources that produce a fickle output but effciently kill thousands of birds; electric vehicles that wind up being disposal and economic disasters at the end of their lives; biodiesel from fast food restaurants oil that is likely THE most limited fuel supply on Earth at a greater processing economic loss than gasoline; ethanol production that works decently with sugarcane* but still carries huge lost overhead costs for planting, harvesting, conversion, separation, and shipping, and still only has 62% of the BTU's (at a far lower temperture) per gallon compared to gasoline , etc, etc, etc.
Nothing beats oil, coal or nukular.
(*Adding up the energy costs of corn production and its conversion into ethanol, 131,000 BTUs are needed to make one gallon of ethanol. One gallon of ethanol has an energy value of only 77,000 BTUS. Thus, 70 percent more energy is required to produce ethanol than the energy that actually is in it. Every time you make one gallon of ethanol, there is a net energy loss of 54,000 BTUs.)
Am I still full of myself, aligncare?
Looks like the work of two individual inventors. I guess all the expensive corporate R&D and government funded research is no match.