Quote:Saudi Arabia expects solar to take over oil and alternative energy investment to outpace oil investment by the 20's

 

Why don't we get behind that? I'm sure you conservatives have a perfectly good retort.

 

Regardless if climate change, global warming/cooling is man made or natural I think solar is the future and support getting behind it 100%. The problem is we're missing a link right now, I remember seeing a really detailed documentary on solar energy a few years ago and they talked about how we almost need to create an element that can absorb more energy from the sun. I think they said the best we can do right now is capture about 3% of the energy from the sun, if we could get close to 10% the world's energy problem is over.

 

However the advances we have seen in solar haven't been where government get's involved. Just look at Solyndra and it's a good example of crony capitalism.

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