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I don't think an alternative energy grid around the country is the answer.

That would simply substitute one huge infrastructure, with all the government regulations and bottlenecks for the one that already exists. It would also require the government to invoke eminent domain in a massive way to the harm of many individuals.

Power grids and their associated infrastructures are very expensive to build. This excuses government in granting monopoly status to them (to justify the expenditure of capital) and, once they are built, there is an enormous inertia that blocks innovation and alternatives.

I think building an alternative energy grid would compound the problem, not resolve it.

I also believe that energy grids, such as the electric power grids, are inherently unstable and too easy a target for terrorists or others to attack and cause disruption of services throughout enormous areas and millions of people.

I think it would be far more preferable to develop a system where, to the extent possible, each household and each building is self-sustaining, through a combination of solar and wind power.

That would leave the power grids to provide back-up. In fact, during non-peak hours, these self-sustaining properties could feed power back into the grid, for which the power companies will have to pay them.

I have not done the research, but I believe the technology should be out there to do this.

I also believe that it won’t be too long before builders who want to have an advantage in the market place, start to incorporate passive and active solar and wind power into the homes they are building. Buyers will pay a higher price for a property that does not consume electricity, but produces its own.

First, the energy grid is simply the delivery system for all kinds of electric energy, both conventional and alternative. Second, cost and availability will always dictate the viability of any product so rising oil and gas prices make alternative energies attractive partial replacements. Third, government and corporations are institutions, not people. In other words they don't 'care'. 'Caring' is an emotional human response so it isn't fair for you to expect institutions to 'feel' for you. Both governments and corporations can be useful institutions in implementing changes in energy programs and policy, but the changes need to make sense economically.

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It could be done we have had the technology for alternatives to fossil fuel for years. The big oil companies by the rights to the technology as soon as they can, so when oil runs out they will still have control. If we where to fund something like this it would have to be funded by private investors. For some reason any mention of raising taxes makes people in this countries skin crawl. So that being said it wont be funded by the citizens it will have to be funded by private investors. Big oil runs this country not the pipe dream we have been lead to believe that we have the power.

The Gov, is not the problem.. It is the teachers that brain washed u about Global Warming. The fact that Gore made a movie which was a lie doesn't bother U. The plants are doing a great job recycling CO2 into oxygen and fossil fuel . It is a cycle just like the water cycle. There for the more CO2 we produce the better the plants like it.

I have thought about his and the sad thing is many people are lazy and gas powered vehicles give them freedom to go anywhere at any time without working up a sweat. For most people it is all about self. We have trains and busses now that are usauly more than half empty. We need to change peoples hearts and minds before we invest in technology !!!

I would have more busses and trains to go places or subway systems I would use them all of the time but it is very hard for something like that to be in small towns where I live so I help out as much as I can I ride my bike back and forth to work

What is the alternative energy??????

There is no alternative energy that can even come close to fossil fuels.

You are living a pipe dream if you think bio-diesel, or ethanol, or solar, can replace fossil fuel.

You can add up every green energy source in the world, and it would not even keep up, with the increased in demand for energy in the world.

Now if you wanna talk Nuclear energy then I'm all for that. But I'm sure you won't go there.

well tha government isnt going 2 anything about it, if you think about it. this democracy (otherwise known as u.s.a) is about 2 destroy itself with suspicion and inflation. whats gonna happen when theres no more gas?. this country is gonna fall apart. i think that in about 50 years that is if half the world isnt fried of underwater because of global warming that everything will be like "i am legend", except for the whole infected zombie things. either way, this way of life is about to end.

I am sorry. This question is a bit difficult to answer. I think it will cost much also.

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