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Develop Clean Energy Products In an 'War Economy'
In light of the dire situation in terms of emissions today and the serious obstruction of clean energy
development by the existing business models the commercial model should no longer apply. If the world had a free market
it would have adopted clean alternatives many years ago, but the oil industry has hoarded patents and suppressed enterprises
by locking them in to the limbo between patent application and manufacturing. All that has been market controls by the existing
industry.
Whenever clean energies fo enter the market they are tuned to an optimum price to still get enough customers, requires subsidies
but not become prevalent. This is the norm because most new developments are required to go through the bank loan application 'filter'
and the big investment 'filter'. This is another example of market control by the existing industry.
An exception exists for big wind and big solal, the multibillion dollar projects, for the obvious reason they are subisdized and overpriced, they are part of the industry price control mechanism. They also function to keep small manufacturers off the market and create an image of complexity. This is another example of market control by the existing industry.
This is why some critics say we are living in a planned economy.
Military Style Development
Development and manufacturing of clean energy solutions should be approached like a war industry. Like Japans economy after world war II, no holds barred strategy. The energy market should not be allowed to set prices at interesting points, but at the minimum. Then a profit margin could be defined, the easiest would be to abolish the VAT on the products, so the manufacturers and sales people have almost 19% (in Holland) to divide amongst each other.
Because there would be a focus on several smart technologies like the parabolic trough collector or vacuum tube, or heatpumps, which are all overpriced, manufacturing and installation would be more uniform and cheap. This does not mean nobody could develop a better product, but there would be central planning (don't choke).
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