Yes We Can

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. As if we haven't had enough Kennedy dopes to last us several lifetimes, another tries for the gold ring.

Robert Kennedy, Jr. says the Goracle’s challenge to the United States to generate its electricity entirely from renewable sources within 10 years is not fast enough.

In solar energy resplendent border states of Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas, setting up solar plants would prove cheaper than building more conventional sources of energy, he said. “These are the Saudi Arabias of sun.”

“We can build those plants anywhere, we can build them cheaper than nuke plants, cheaper than old coal plants, and cheaper than oil plants, and faster than any of them,” said Kennedy a member of the U.S. political dynasty and a senior attorney for the environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council.

So why the need for government subsidies? Probably because the costs don't work out, by a lot. Same thing that stops billionaire T. Boone Pickens. Otherwise, what stops you from building your sun fired power plants, your wind fired power plants and selling cheap electricity to all comers.

The notion of alternative energy is transparent, it obviously will cost more, a lot more.

I think you know the answer.