[khnyny]

Unfortunately, there are certain sets of problems that go along with whatever energy technology is currently in use, be that oil, coal and even nuclear. The "emerging technologies" have problems too, but mainly from a lack of R&D, investment and opposition from the status quo. Patents have been bought and warehoused lest they disrupt the "money flow". There are huge amounts of money to be made from energy, (obviously), so, imho, the fight is on to see how it will all shake out. Monopolies typically do not inspire nor encourage innovation.

Anyone who's interested in this topic may want to look up "Stanford Ovshinsky". He's an inventor, with quite an interesting history. Also, see the movie "Who Killed the Electric Car".

[Nathan Zachary]

All you need is a good 2000w inverter, 4 good deep cycle batteries and a small quiet 1000w genset, a solar panel and you can make power your own house fairly cheaply.

As for that electric car thing, there are lot of "conspiracy theory" stories out there. The truth of the matter is, there has never been an efficient one built. (And no, the evil government didn't come take people's inventions away, especially anything Tom Bearden "invented")