Renewable energy
I see it's just another episode of the Obama administration flushing more taxpayer money away down the drain. If these schemes were any good, then private cash would have already flooded in to fulfill them, and don't give me any more guff about "kickstarting" something, it's not a motorcycle, or "economies of scale" either. Wind turbines have already reached their optimum size and they still don't provide the answer. Cellulosic ethanol sounded slightly promising until I realised that still nobody knows how to do it! Algae - fine, as long as you can afford to cover many square miles with expensive machinery, oh silly me, I forgot, it's only taxpayer money, so naturally there'll be no problem with that! Pity it'll still need to be attached to a coal burning power station to access the CO2 needed for the process though.
If we are going to go into alternative energy, why on Earth don't we at least start with something that MIGHT eventually work, like thorium reactors, instead of just leaving them to the Indians and South Koreans? At the moment we are just chasing a Will o' the Wisp, and a very expensive wasteful one at that Let's get real and start by deporting all these dopey, pie in the sky eco-nuts who only know how to waste other peoples money on their idiotic fantasies, or at least find them real jobs so that they start to understand the value of money and the need to use it efficiently. A course in basic mathematics would be great for them to start with!
