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Originally Posted by craigblitz

Those are some really good articles UTGrad. I baffles me that we have great renewable energy stores such as Air, Water, and Sun but so little has gone into developing these technologies. The reasons are many, but the benefits are greater in the mid to long run for a vast number of reasons both from a country and world perspective.

The one major drawback to wind is the cost to make them. Couple that with the fact that iron oar has risen almost 98% the last several months,, steel is not cheap.

I really hope our country wakes up and starts treating this as our most important war to date. I personally feel this has a greater impact to the lives, saftey, and hapiness to all Americans then a war in the Middle East.

The war on oil? We blew it as a country during the Ike presidency. He had a syn fuel plant working but chose to shut it down. Imagine where we would have been with 50 years of development with this technology. Solar is making a play. Toledo has many companys in the area working on this technology. First Solar just built a plant in Malaysia. Then there's the ethanol plants in the Midwest - raising the price of food. It's going to take some time to work it all out and weed out the technological dogs.