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Originally Posted by darkangelism
We can do more then before, we can turn coal and natural gas into oil, and we are working on turning plant matter into oil, just the energy requirtements are high. Alternative fuels dont work either both ethenol and hydrogen based fuels use more energy then they produce. The only cost effective alternative energy source is solar and it is still very expensive.
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Solar isn't all that feasible on the face of the planet. It is a nice feel good sort of thing, but we could never run our society on it. Conceivably if it became economically and technologically viable to build solar satellites and beam the power to earth via microwave we could.
And Hydrogen isn't about creating or tapping existing energy, it is about not using fossil fuels and centralizing the sources of our pollution. IF the hydrogen is produced in a few plants for every region of the country and piped out from there then it is easier to regulate the emissions. And as far as getting energy I think we should be pumping way more money into research about economically viable Fusion power (not cold fusion :roll
and we should be building new Nuclear plants.