SB: alt.power

[Jeff Anderson <au806@tcnet.org>]

It might be interesting to trace the support the government has given the
computer industry over the years. You can't argue that schools have'nt been
getting mucho bucks for years from the government to supply computers and
training. I think supporting alt.power is a perfect place for the
government to step in with a package of incentives. It's also time to
factor in all the costs of fossil fuels and start making them reflect the
costs of damage they do ( disincentives).Then the comparitve costs of
different ways of generating power would look more favorable. Free market
capitalism has it's limitations.
Jeff



>>All well and good. Try to sell that to John Q. That is the first
>>problem of alternative systems. Any new inovation has to be
>>accepted by the general public (read paying public) before it can
>>be widelly marketed and the price brought dowm (or at the very
>>least getting the banks ,yuck, to finance it). Lets take as a
>>practical example the computer (fitting is it not?). The computer
>>as we know it today was invented as a practical way for the Army
>>artillery to calculate trajectories. It remained in the realm of
>>the useless for decades until a college drop out (a couple of
>>college drop outs actually) decided to improve on a XEROX
>>invention and make it user friendly. Add to that the open code
>>creation of practical things to do with the computer and voila',
>>you have a machine capable of doing a myriad of things at a
>>reasonable price.
>>
>>Until we can do the same for alternative power systems (and please
>>do not say the Federal Government should do it, look at the space
>>program today and show me were is the improvement) we will not be
>>able to get off the oil fix.
>>
>>So any William Gates or Steven Jobs out there?
>>(notice I used their full names, they deserve the respect)
>>

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