by David Kramer

Created on: April 26, 2010   Last Updated: April 27, 2010

Clean alternative energy already exists, and was developed by the private sector.  While the public sector flounders the government plays the political card to secure votes and create an illusion of the need for bigger government and more taxes to solve what the private sector failed to do.  The private sector has provided alternative forms of energy but the government has interfered

In 1839 Sir Williams Grove invented the fuel cell.   The fuel cell is a technology for deriving energy electrochemically.  Fuel cells have been used by the space program to provide electrical power in space craft for years.   The automotive industry has been tinkering with them for years.  

The hydrogen fuel cell is clean, producing pure water as the output waste.  There is never a possibility of running out of hydrogen, if it were to happen, we would all long since been gone and have no need for energy.  

The first true solar cell was invented in 1883 by Charles Frtts.  Likewise the solar cells are used greatly by the government in the space program but have yet to make it a viable clean alternative to the people.  

Companies like Solar Ovonics, a subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices, a private company, is one leading organization making solar technologies affordable and viable.

How then is the government going to make these technologies more available to the people when they have had more than 100 years to do something and have done nothing.  What they have done is highly regulated the conventional energy distribution methods.  

For example, nuclear, which is far more clean than coal, has been so heavily regulated that it is not profitable for utility companies to provide nuclear solutions.   There have been far less deaths and illnesses from all nuclear reactors globally combined than what occur each year due to coal power plants.

The government has also slowed down technologies such as wind and hydroelectric, thanks to the Environmental Protection Agency.  There are obvious problems that can occur as a result of building a dam (though the government has done that), such as creating floods or drying up wetlands.  

The windmill, however, has been slow in coming because of the sight pollution wind farms cause and the fact that they might cause death to birds that could run into the blades.

Then there is the issue of policies between governments complicating matters.   In the United States the complaint

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