Onshore Wind costs less than coal, why is there not a huge move to use it?

[Gregorian]

9. A whole society is in synch. It takes flexibility to change.

From the little machine shops that service the industry, to the huge corporations, they are constructed around drilling.

Now that I'm thinking about it, it's technology that trickles down, not money.

I see two paths: one is changing existing companies; the other is new companies.

I don't see Exxon gearing up for solar or wind. They will buy companies that do that.

It's like metric. I'm designing a machine, and it's all in metric. Once you see the benefits of something, only then can we make good decisions as to pursue an avenue, or not.

Another reason is subsidization of existing companies. Obama has done well from what I've seen, and there are little companies coming up with new technologies.

I was asking this question in the early 70's when all we saw were very poor solar installations. I thought after that first earth day that we meant business. No. And here we are all of these year later. Cars got bigger. Houses got bigger. Population of planet earth got bigger.

We're also based on this unsustainable notion of growth. Earth seemed so infinite only 200 years ago!