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Originally Posted by JimMorrison
And to clarify, even if it took solar panels 20 years to recoup their investment in energy costs, compared to the current cost of oil, it is beyond a win-win situation from day 1 (more American jobs in PV-cell fab plants, less reliance on foreign fuel, less reliance on fossil fuel altogether, reduced environmental impact, etc), but it's also a... better expenditure of even say $1trillion, than propping up banks
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That I agree with. Blowing a trillion dollars on solar power panels (or nuclear plants, or hydroelectric dams, or almost *anything* except Tokamaks) would likely have been more cost-effective than blowing a trillion on trying to stabilize the Middle-East politically so we could keep buying oil from them.
I've got my fingers crossed for the Navy's polywell fusion experiments.
-Max