What’s Holding Up The Introduction Of Viable Alternative Energy?
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It’s the question of the day, and one that has beguiled too many people to count. Why oh why is it so hard to get truly renewable energy into the commercial marketplace? And the answer is somewhat more simple than one might think, and hard to accept.
One active alternative energy researcher puts it this way (Tim Benedict http://www.TimBenedict.net).
“Sadly, it’s an unfortunate byproduct of our capitalistic economic system. And just so you don’t misunderstand me, capitalism is not a bad system. It’s just established energy’s abuses of this system that creates our problem.
But before we discuss this problem further, we need to make a distinction between “Big Energy” companies that broker oil, coal, and nuclear, and little companies that broker alternative fuels like solar, wind, hydrogen, magetic, and others. All the “Big” companies have money to build BIG projects with, that in turn require a BIG payoff in order to be profitable to them. Which is ok. The “Little Guys” on the other hand, are exploring home grown energy that is grassroots in nature: small, and easily implemented. Thus the coal companies resent the small solar power companies who cut into their electricity market. Gasoline companies resent hydrogen development because it will potentially cut into their market too. Electric power companies don’t like lots of self-sufficient people in their areas that generate their own electricity, because off-griders aren’t (captive) paying customers anymore. And this threatens all the big energy boys as a group who just happen to also pull most of the political, economic, and legal strings of our society.
It all boils down to money. Big energy companies who have their entire wealth tied up in certain energy fields, by their very nature, don’t like to let competition threaten them. They do compete with each other, which is healthy, but they all tend to band together when Little Guy Energy threatens all of them together, which is not healthy.
If even just a few of the magnet motor generators under development in countless garages around the world were to be made commercially available, the electric power grid would lose customers left and right. It would also help unload the still currently overloaded electrical grid. Unfortunately, some places, at the instigation of the power companies themselves, have apparently already actually made it illegal to operate a magnet motor generator. End result? Alternative Magnet Energy killed, and electric power company monopoly and profit guaranteed and perpetuated.
And examples just like this can be found in every single alternative energy and fuel field. The oil companies fight to keep gas mileage improving technologies off the market shelves.Auto makers won’t produce better mileage vehicles unless Congress mandates it so that their oil company partners stay satisfied.Yada, yada, etc and so forth.
In short, the Big Boys have vested interests in obsolete energy technologies and WILL try to kill the new technologies off, nearly as fast as they are developed (see some of them at http://www.EvergreenGasLabs.com). Now I agree wholeheartedly that the Big Boy Energy companies have their place. They generally provide reliable power to big buildings, cities, and countless other people who cannot, or might not, generate their own power, even if the option were available to them. It’s like in the real estate market: there will always be renters, even when they could own their homes instead.
But when the Big Boys start to prosecute, bury, or otherwise squash home grown alternative energy, or through deceptive advertising brainwash people into believing that alternative fuels and energies aren’t practical, viable, or available yet, it actually makes our society their slave, and keeps us from moving forward.I draw the line here, especially since other options ARE already available.”
So what are our options?
1. Just accept that alternative fuels and energies are already available. 2. Carefully invest some capital into someone or some company that is making progress with them. 3. And don’t be scared to try some of them out for yourself.
Mirrored from Mindzle.