| Libertarian, the other forms of energy harvesting are actually far more effective than fossil fuels.
The point simply is that the costs of implementing the new forms is way too high for any company to take on without government help. The costs being high would cause the price for the energy to be high (since the implementation costs would be passed on to the consumer). This would cause the demand for it to go sharply down.
The costs won't get low again until there is high demand.
So you can see the circular quandry that comes with implementation. The only thing that can be done is either for a few early adopters to bite the bullet and get the ball rolling or for a major climate change that will force the implementation (such as the ending of the supply of fossil fuels). |