Despite some rather daunting technical difficulties, many people including President Obama, are pushing hard to have "alternative energy" take a bigger role in our nation's energy production. In fact, Obama plans to reduce our oil imports by 1/3 and using alternative energy as the main replacement. Alternative energy may be expensive and in it's infancy, but surely the enlightened hand (and pocketbook) of the federal government can transform these technologies into a mature, reliable, and pollution free power source? Obama, and the Democratic party have made that claim part of their party platform. In fact, they say alternative energy will...