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To: combjelly who wrote (397258)	7/8/2008 11:12:35 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1576749

>>> It needed subsidies and tax breaks to solve the "chicken and egg" problem. Still does. The fact is that solar energy is nowhere. It is far too expensive to be worthy of anything more than passing consideration.

To: combjelly who wrote (397258)	7/8/2008 11:50:41 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576749

Multiply just solar water heaters X the number of American homes. Reagan was a disaster for alternative energy. I also remember many home designs you could find in the "Whole Earth Catalog" at the time that were super efficient, using the sun and a heat sink mass beneath that used practially no outside energy at all. The Reaganites laughed and poo-poohed all this mercilessly. If these had had a little government incentives, where would we be NOW, almost forty years later?