but, americans are good at umm... innovation! we are gonna put our 37th ranked educated minds together and innovate a way to make china poor again, dont worry
Americans are good at regulating against innovation and are even better at collecting 99 weeks of unemployment.
well some innovation is stupid, like solar if god wanted us to use solar he would have buried the sun in the ground
Fracking. They knew how to do it in the 70s, maybe earlier. It wasn't cost effective, like... Solar. Now it is and we are becoming energy independent. http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/energy-overview/solar/ Today, solar energy provides two-tenths of 1 percent of the total energy consumed in the United States. While the amount of solar electricity capacity in the US has increased in recent years—rising from 334,244 kilowatts in 1997 to 1,488,500 kilowatts in 2011 , it still only accounts for 0.1% of net electricity generated in the United States – the least among the renewable sources of hydroelectric, biomass, wind and solar.
Solar isn't a big thing at all. Huge investments already. Subsidies. A nuclear power plant costs $4B. California spent more than that in subsidies for solar last year. For less power.
If there were money to be made at it, you'd have a Rockefeller or Carnegie or JP Morgan or Charles Schwab (or Bill Gates, etc.) famous for making $billions off it. Innovators. I mean $billions from consumers, not from govt. handouts and otherwise bilking the people.
do you think america will still be lighting things on fire to boil water for steam power in 30 years? 50 years?
You asked So if there were some big bully nation that was the only superpower in the world, say 1/3 of the world's economy, and you wanted to put it down, what would you do? The cost of dealing with global warming would bankrupt us. That's one way. Investing in something that costs $2 to make but generates $1 in value is another. Anti-capitalism. Read about it at all? It's not all that fringe.
