The Biggest user of power has not been investigated seriously. Do you know who it is? In the US it is the grid itself - the transmission lines. They use 10% of all energy. That is pretty ineffeccient all things considereded, especially with our present technology.
Green supporters spent time and effort getting us to buy the not-so-green little flourescent bulbs. They forgot about the mercury used to make them and we have no good way to dispose of them. Technically, if you break one of those bulbs you need to call a hazmat team to your house for them to clean it up. And here you thought that Nuclear Energy was a problem. Now that we have all been hoodwinked into not buying regular lightbulbs and buying these little environmental hazzards, we are in a pickle. However, that is a digression from where I was going.
We seem to rather continue funding programs that in reality do not work and have their own issues. The whole methanol boondoggle is continually draining our coffers while not giving us even half back on our returns. Gas wit alcohol isn't proven to be any cleaner and it really isn't "saving" anything if you look at how much it is subsidized. There is no big study or effort to make our electric grid more efficient, other than wht the companies do themselves. They know they are losing energy and energy=$. If they cannot do it for short term rewards - they are not interested. That is where our tax-funded research should focus first. If wind power is so great, it would stand on its own.
This will not happen, as there are no political favors to be gained by making the grid more efficient. That is unless GE gets involved :)
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