Alex Filonov

Do We Need an Alternative Energy 'Manhattan Project'?

If you say something, doesn't mean it happens. When Truman said Drop the bomb', he had it. Price didn't matter. When Kennedy said 'Let's go to the Moon', technology was available, price was decent for the goal (not the Moon but the propaganda value). Even Manhattan project was built on the base of know science and technology. There is no technological base for altenergy right now which makes it at close to competitive with oil for transportation. Governments around the world spent hundreds of billions since 1970s (much more than on Manhattan project and Moon races combines, adjusted for inflation) and still nothing. Best hope we have now is fuel cells working on gasoline. But they've been three years in the future for the last ten years. When somebody invents cold thermonuclear device compact and powerful enough to fit in the car, and cheap enough to mass produce, that's it. Everything else is just talk. And huge waste of taxpayers money.