commander cricket, the solar industry made its faustian bargain with the government to have fossil fuel recovery very slow and bureaucratic as well has having its solar businesses subsidized by taxpayers. after assuming solar is so clean that its deployment would never be held up by the devil, solar companies are discovering the government's payment side of the faustian bargain. after this government "study" slows things down for solar and the american consumers, i imagine when the environmental impact study is published, some set of lawyers will challenge whatever the conclusions are in court and slow things down even more.
i am for solar, wind, nuclear, drilling for oil and ng offshore, onshore, and in alaska, coal, and non-corn based ethanol. did i leave anything out? we need it all, and we need to get busy with all of it now.
some may recall a post i did on this very bdbbr about two or three years ago (maybe longer?) in which i wrote the best thing we could have done back then was to take about half of nasa scientists and engineers and redirect their work to accelerating research in other forms of energy, e.g., solar, wind, other alternative energy forms. if this were treated the way we do defense contracts, the chosen "prime" contractor gets all the private companies, universities, and government scientists and agencies involved to address and solve the particular problem that is contracted for. |
