*make alternative fuels and energy sources viable again.

*As long as it doesn't need crops like sugarcane (first generation bio-fuel) I agree on that. The worldwide food-crisis isn't only caused by lost rice-harvests in Australie, but also because valuable cropfields are more and more used for bio-fuel.
(in holland the price of vegetable oil has doubled because people are using it, as a cheap replacement for diesel oil, which is a luxury problem of course ! In azië and afrika people are starving)
As long as bio-fuel is made of bio-industries residues like chicken- and pork dung. and other none eatable products (second generation bio-fuel) I don't have any problems with that. Alternative energy is a must because the Oil-peak, which is the point after the oil-production is only going downwards, is calculated within 10 years.
Wind - and solarenergy will cover only a part of need, Atomfusion which is non-poluting compaired to Atom-splitting is the power of future, but will only be available over 40-50 years. So in the meantime, the only sound solution is to be very economical with our current supply of energy and fight wars for it, because that will only cost enourmous amounts of energy. I personaly think that the high energyprices aren't a bad thing because they forge us to be more economical. I heard that SUV's and off the roads-trucks are getting very cheap because everbody dumps them, I applaud on that!

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-How can you improve things when you don't make mistakes?