The Breakthrough Institute, http://www.thebreakthrough.org/, founded in 2002, believes that renewable energy success will come by making renewable energy affordable for everyone thereby revolutionizing energy technology.
Their belief is that the, “best way to develop those clean technologies is to increase federal energy research tenfold, and to create a project akin to the Apollo mission to the moon.”
I believe that the development of new technologies is critical to clean energy growth, and that existing opportunities for current renewable energy generation must fill the void between then and now.
What percentage of government funding do you believe should go into installing current designs versus research and development?
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For the Apollo program, R&D was on-going as the spacecraft were being developed (remember Gemini? That was a stepping stone to Lunar landing). They never would have got to the moon if they had only relied on Mercury craft. The same logic must be applied for energy development. Little (no?) money should be spent on implementing more of the same: current, non-renewable energy solutions like coal, oil and nuclear. Mirages such as "clean coal" and "safe nuclear" should not divert us from the higher goal of developing renewable sources/systems. That is the only way we will be able to shift the focus.
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