You know how much money the government spent developing the atomic bomb? Roughly 25 billion dollars when you adjust for inflation. Twenty-Five BILLION dollars to develop a weapon that has the potential to wipe mankind from the face of the planet, spent in a period of a couple of years! You wanna know how much money the government has spent on alternative fuel research? If you ignore nuclear energy (lol), then roughly about 1 billion dollars... in the last decade
For 2007, Bush committed $2 billion dollars over the next decade for COAL research. He's giving just $148 million in Solar, and $44 million in Wind power research in that same time lol. This country is addicted to fossil fuels and shows no signs of freeing themselves from them. If this country would plunk 25 billion dollars into solar energy I guarantee you?ll get 90-95% efficient solar cells. With those you would be able to capture nearly 400-500 watts per square meter? fucking pave Montana with solar panels, nobody lives there, and power the fucking country without using god damn fossil fuels.