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Originally Posted by BigRed
Let capitalism do it's job.
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I agree that companies should decide what exactly to research, but I think government funding or tax policy to aid companies pursuing alternative energy can bolster the effect.
The problem with leaving it totally to the market is that you either end up with a patent... making it more difficult to spread and improve on the technology...
or you end up with a company spending resources on necessary technology, only to end up at market disadvantage when competitors take hold of the technology.
The government should allow the fast transfer and diffusion of this technology without giving a market disadvantage to those companies that do all the work!