Quick! What type of world did you imagine when you were a kid? Did you foresee yourself darting about in a hovercraft much like the cartoon family in the Jetsons? Vacationing on the moon? A lean, mean greener world? How is it that we find ourselves these many years, decades even, down the road and [...]
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So Far From Green, So Close to Brown: Why An Alternative Energy Future is Slow in Coming
Posted in economy, politics, technology, tagged abundant, advancements, alternative, balance, Big Oil, blame, brown energy, bullet train, buzzword, capital, clean, collaborative, collective, commodities, cooperative, crisis, debate, define, drilling, economy, efficient, environmentalists, food, food insecurity, fuel, future, geothermal, gouging, Green, highway, history, hovercraft, imagine, incentives, inflation, infrastructure, innovation, invention, Iran, jobs, market, myths, not in my backyard, oil, partisan, partnership, petro, petro hoarding, political, Popular Science, power, price hikes, prices, private, privatize, profit, progress, public, pump, railroad, renewable, renewable resources, resource, rhetoric, risk, role, scarcity, solution, space, speculation, subsidy, surge, sustainable, tax break, technology, transportation, truth, values, venture capital, vision, water, wind, world, WPA on March 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
