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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
I dunno, I really have my doubts. I've been reading many different huge advances in alternative energies, and for one reason or another, it just doesn't fly. Whether its big rich oil/gas companies buying all the intellectual rights to crush the competition, energy economics needed to power one of these things, and if you get sufficient energy out to make it your worthwhile, barriers and laws put up to make it that much harder, initial costs of production of these things, or even something stupid like poor marketing to the early adapters, alternative fuels just seem to fight more of an uphill battle then most other industries.
Then again, I'm not a chemist so this isn't really my field.
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They could use the Mr Burns method and block out the sun
But in all seriousness, finding a way to harness the solar energy efficiently and eventually cheaply would be a gigantic revolution for our future.