Cap and Trade vote on Friday

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

You are assuming that this big break through in batteries will come soon. Why i dont know. Certainly there will be trillions of dollars to be made for the company that makes the breakthrough so it is hard to believe that there isnt tons of research being done already. I prefer to not make assumptions of things that we cannot know of (like break through in technology) but rather of things that we do know of (like monetary policy) Assuming that the world can just change over to electric cars based upon a discovery that hasnt happened yet is not simplistic. You are right. It is insane.

Stunningly shortsighted again.

Basic research into storing electrical energy is in its infancy.
In our country, basic research is guided by the government and
the public sector watches and siezes upon finds that can make
money. Do you not get this? How do you think the majority of
the drugs that are on the market got started? You think some
company just picks up a basic fact out of the air
and starts from scratch without BASIC RESEARCH?
And the idea that storing electrical energy efficiently can only
be applied to cars (or this is what you attribute my thoughts to)
is again terribly simplistic or disingenous.

You basically have no idea how the free market plays a major
role in innovation. How mistakes in basic research and in R and D
within companies leads to innovation.

Does Conservative automatically disqualify one from believing in
innovation since that would not be a conservative endeavour?

Further.
Have you ever read a SCIENCE article that attempts to point out
its own shortfalls? THis is what SCIENCE does. 'Here is what we think
we know, and here is why we are skeptical about our own conclusions.'