<div class="gmail_quote">On 25 February 2012 12:40, Eugen Leitl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org">eugen@leitl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Now we're out of time and money, need to focus on boring, sure winner areas.<br>
Deploying rather than developing. Germany does some of that, but also<br>
too little, too late.<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>If the direst forecasts are true, this would risk however being futile. <br><br>Italy, eg, wasted substantial resources subsidising (corrupted and anti-economic) developments of solar and aeolic, and is now already reducing such incentives (paradoxically, when the return would be somewhat higher!), because the previous level was unsustainable - especially given that we have seen the light, and know by now that all money must go to the banks where it belongs. :-)<br>
<br>So, perhaps high-risk, high-yield (that is, fusion), is our actual chance out of the trap.<br><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>