10-02-2015, 12:46 AM
(10-02-2015, 12:35 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Think of the money we would save in military spending if we could develop an alternative energy source that would make oil irrelevant.
We know we are going to have to do it someday. Why not get a jump on the issue. I saw where China is spending ten times as much as the United States on developing solar power. And that is despite the fact that their GDP is still only about one third of the United States.
There have been plenty of alternatives developed.
The oil companies bought up all the patents and are even rumored to have eliminated the opposition who wouldn't sell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Meyer%27s_water_fuel_cell