>There are homes now that use solar and wind power for energy, and in fact, some of them sell energy back to the grid. The problem is that it is far too expensive for most people because nobody is mass producing the technologies. Nor are they doing enough research on it. Yes, small companies do some of it, but their costs are relatively high since they can't turn out product at a rate that reduces costs significantly. This is where the governments should be aiming. Unfortunately, as someone said before, this sort of technology makes the user independent of the supplier, and the large energy producers do not see a great enough ongoing future income to make them want to get into it. Oil is far too lucrative right now and moreso in the foreseeable future. The more supply wanes, the higher the price will be, and for some inexplicable reason, as the cost per barrel goes up, so do the profits. When the oil companies were paying record prices per barrel, they were also recording record
>profits. It is a strange scenario indeed.

There was a farcical situation a few months ago when Britain's Deputy PM, John Prescott (who's in charge of energy I think), had arrested these energy demonstrators who'd got onto his roof to install solar panels! He had them removed of course.