"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?
My point, in case you missed it, was that a private company would loose it's pants if the millions it spent on Research and development was for an idea that losses in the market place. Pay attention, free market capitalism being taught here.
Don't want an air powered car? Don't buy one -- the company fails. Air cars disappear from the market. Think you'd like an air powered car to tool around town in? Buy the car -- the company succeeds to make more cars...and so on, and so on.
If another company is making a fuel cell car and can demonstrate cheap and easy refueling...buy that car if you like.
It doesn't have to be all or nothing at all. Companies have a way of responding to the market...filling a need...giving people something they want to scratch that itch, you know?