Reply #26: It's a very complicated problem ...

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and I definitely do not have the background to suggest a solution, but I believe that there are people who could work together to solve this problem.

Maybe we need to launch a project like we did to land a man on the moon or to develop the first nuclear weapon. By enlisting the best minds in our country and allowing them to consider all approaches without the interference of politicians or corporations we might create new technologies and improve existing ones to not only gain energy independence for our nation but to provide inexpensive green power to many other nations.

Congress and the presidents at the time could have never landed men on the moon, but NASA did. The spin off technologies from the lunar program led to many of the improvements which enhance our lives today.

Obviously we need to change our approach because over the last several decades we have accomplished little except to insure the profits of Big Oil.

The people we elect to office are no more competent than or I you at solving the energy problem but they are great at playing political games and getting reelected. That may be the basic problem. This problem is far too important to trust to politicians.