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To: bentway who wrote (275973)	2/21/2006 9:55:22 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578394

re: Maybe someday it will make sense economically. I wonder if it doesn't today. If you take into account all the government subsidies for energy companies, the cost of energy to the trade deficit (more than 1/3 of the total), and all the costs of infrastructure improvements in the future, the political costs (can you add the cost of the Iraq war, the cost of ME aid to Israel and Egypt?)... maybe, I don't know, the bottom line for the country would probably favor renewable energy as the cheaper solution. And if not, so what? Cheaper is not always (in fact rarely) better. re: I really love the idea of hundreds of thousands of small pollution free power producers connected network fashion. Energy would be a whole lot more reliable! Energy production for the internet age. Our current energy model is the old mainframe-dumb terminal model. No doubt. I'm seriously thinking about solar panels for a percentage of electricity... the thing that always stops me is that I keep hearing about new technology (just around the corner) that is cheaper and much more efficient. So government need to step forward and make it a no brainer... stop subsidizing energy companies, stop fighting wars for energy, start subsidizing local renewable production.