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To: quehubo who wrote (50295)	2/23/2008 8:51:33 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 544047

Sam, I think your ideas are hundreds of years away. You would have said the same thing about nuclear power in the 1930s--if you would have believed it was possible at all. True, I'm not an engineer. Or even a scientist, for that matter. I'm still learning as best as I can about environmental and energy matters, in addition to doing a lot of other things at the moment. Slow going. Still learning. But I know that there are plenty of people are working on these problems. More and more Silicon Valley money has gone into alternative energy research. It would help, IMHO, if there was strong encouragement from governments to make even more investments. Just as it helped the O&G sector find more o&g with all sorts of subsidies. And just as it helped all sorts of industries deemed critical in their infancy and even, for that matter, afterward (although I find it absurd to keep subsidizing the O&G sector at this point, for many reasons). But most of the transportation, communications, computer and pharmaceutal/medical sectors would not have developed as well as they did without government subsidies of one sort or another.