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Originally posted by sgtclub
I know, and that is why I say "may." The problem is that with experimental technologies, the costs and the risks of failure or inefficientcy is very high, though the magnitude of potential success is also very high. In areas of such import as energy, I think it may be beneficial to encourage more entres into the industry in order to increase the chances of success by mitigating, at least to a small degree, the costs involved.
The pharm/biotech industry has a great model in this regard. Many of the assets/technologies are developed by the universities and then licensed or sold to private companies in the development/exploitation stage. Not sure if this is done in the energy industry.
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Technolgy in energy areas has developed. Now it just has to sell.
The hybrid cars are a big step forward, but because we have to have such big cars they have the approximate gas milage as the cars being sold in the late 70's early 80's. So the technology benefits us how?
You want to reduce energy problems the thing you need to do is make the consumer change. There are incentives being put out for hybrids like access to HV lanes even though you only have a driver.
