re: #682 Walter L. Newton

You got it. Hell, I worked for the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden for over 10 years. It’s a DOE lab dedicated to renewable energy research, it’s been in business for over 35 years. Yes, they have make some wonderful scientific discoveries, yes they have made advancements in wind, solar, biofuels, batteries and more. Yes, there are some of the best scientist and experts in the energy business at the lab.

But if you talk to ANY scientist there, they will tell you, it’s still not financially viable. The ONLY way it works is if the government offsets the cost.

It takes three factors to make it work. It has to be renewable, sustainable and financially viable.

The equation is not yet complete. The Obama administration is blowing smoke.

I can’t find the link now, but about a month ago, some Israelis announced the first solar farm that didn’t need subsidies. It ran at high temperature and used the heat as well as the electricity.
But that’s it so far.
And Bush’s “hydrogen economy” was a scam as well; they were going to get the hydrogen from coal.
There was a 2003 National Academy of Engineering study on hydrogen. It said the only economic way to produce the hydrogen was a large number of nuclear power plants. So the next time someone tells you hydrogen is a solution, tell them that.
Right now, we get our hydrogen from natural gas, USING energy to do so.