(November 15, 2012 at 3:00 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Easily. Convert the market to a free market by ending corporatism (handouts to businesses, excessive regulation, allow small business to form without red tape getting in the way). Now you have a market which is totally controlled by the will of the consumer.
The will of most consumers is to have a cheap, comfortably accessable product. Inovation is expensive - so inovative but better products might die out under such sircumstances.
To drill, pump, manifacture, transport, market and sell oil - is currently cheaper than building solar pannels and windmills.
(November 15, 2012 at 3:00 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Get enough consumers to demand cleaner energy, and the demand will be large enough to prompt either a current company to take action (by focusing on cleaner energy in order to gain / keep consumers) or for a new company to form in order to meet the demand.
And how will you get the consumer to buy and demand a more expensive product? And how will you get a companie to change from a less risky and comfortable way of production to a potentialy more risky one?
(November 15, 2012 at 3:00 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Either way, the consumers will get what they want, and the more people that get converted to the "green energy" way of life, the more demand there will be. Companies that refuse to go green will rapidly lose consumers, and without government to prop them up, they will face declining profits and eventual bankruptcy if they do not meet with demands.
That is wishfull thinking aslong as there is no logisticaly possible concept to actualy achieve something like that.
(November 15, 2012 at 3:00 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Consumer action rules in a free market. Think about the decline of newspaper sales in recent years; it's not because the government has started giving out money and incentives to develop tablet PCs and other methods of digital reading; it's because the demand was there for such devices. People like the fact that they can buy a single device which weighs less than one newspaper, but can hold millions of them...in the palm of their hand, and as a bonus, you can read books on it and (in some cases) play games, do work, and browse the web.
Newspapers are not inferstructur - such as energy is. And the climate and with it it`s planet wont go up in a bunch of smoke and flames if people dont change their choice of media.
theres a bit more "urgency" gehind the green enrgy issue - to simply propose concepts without providing statistical evidence and calculations which show that it will defenatly work without risk of inefficency.
