"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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Buck Turgidson wrote

Imagine the 300 billion (probably end up close to 600 billion)
used for alternative energy research instead of spending it
on the war, Halliburton, etc. Had we spent the money there,
we wouldn't need these sultans, emirs, ayatollahs, etc.

Bull****. You cant change the basics physics by throwing money at it.

Yeah, you can't build a fission weapon out of Uranium by throwing money at
it. You can't get electricity from nuclear material by throwing money aat
it. . Oh wait, we did in both cases....