Energy Alternatives Competing For Funding

The Palm Beach Post, has a piece about different forms of alternative energy competing for governmental funding. 

WASHINGTON — In what one industry representative calls a struggle for supremacy, advocates of various sources of alternative energy are beginning to point out the competition's warts.

"Everyone wants to use the energy crisis as leverage to support his solution," said Bob Rose, executive director of the Fuel Cell Council.

But with limited government research and development money for ways to replace oil, any technology's gain is a loss for the others. So the criticism is flying in all directions: • Solar energy? A retired University of Connecticut physicist who advocates increased development of nuclear power calls solar energy "a fraud."

• Ethanol? Some critics say that at best it will swap food for fuel, and at worst it will use more energy than it yields.

• Rechargeable batteries for autos? Some call the current technology too expensive and environmentally suspect.

• Hydrogen? One advocate of ethanol fuel recently declared that the dream of a hydrogen-based economy is a "hoax."[/blockquote]

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