Alternative Energy Forums

Hi, lots of great ideas on this forum and helpful advise. There are ideas that could work immediately and cheaply and ideas that would take infrastructure and investments. One of the reasons the projects are so difficult to pursue has nothing at all to do with their viability, it has to do with the agenda to keep this country on foreign oil. I'm not going to point fingers at who is profiting and why, but the fact remains that the attention is not being placed on alternative energies like it should be, despite all the governments claims to being serious.

Most serious projects would need serious funding, and typically only the government could provide the tax breaks and incentives to put projects into motion. They have no desire to put alternative energy projects even close to oil on their priorities list and therein keep us dependent on oil and unable to progress. We need a new business model, a way of making our projects viable for individual or group investors. We need savvy businessmen and marketing teams to turn small energy creating devices into a common commodity that every one should have.

As people we like security, and unfortunately, a young business with one or two products that promises cheap renewable energy isn't trustworthy enought. We are early adapters when Apple puts out a new iphone, but Apple has a solid reputation among consumers.

I dont have a solution to this problem, but I think a percentage of our attention should be focused on how to make our ideas feasible in a country that refuses to invest in them.