I regretfully think of what could have been.
If the governments of the day say 20 years ago and doesn't matter which one as they are all guilty of short sightedness. If they had they forethought and the balls to stand up and invest in solar technology I could only imagine the level of technology that we would be at.
No doubt every house would be on soloar power and feeding the grids thus reducing the need for those big power funnels spewing out all those gases. Instead we choose to make it harder for people to get solar power and put solar power companies out of business thus making sure big businesses still get their massive quarterly profits.
As Scott mentioned how far developed would the electric car have been developed if the government had developed the ideas instead of letting the car companies shelve the prototypes.
The so called crackpots were as right then as the so called crackpots of today are.
Cheers