re: #249 Fozzie Bear

Yep. So when oil costs 15 bucks a gallon because the middle east fell into chaos, lets try to remember that we did this to ourselves. Lets try to recall all those times people were screaming their heads off about needing alternative fuel sources, and how they were ignored and dismissed as “unrealistic”.

As a person that was in the renewable energy business for almost 15 years, I wasn’t one to ever claim it was unrealistic. But I did claim, along with the people on the research side of the fence that is is not plug and go, there are multiple factors involved before it becomes a viable and inexpensive alternative, and there are hundreds of areas besides just substituting “this form of renewable” with this current existing energy technology.

The real problem is between a realistic future of renewables versus the magic fairy future that some green types perceive.