A common tactic of Big Oil and the rest of the Trump-supporting world is to point out that some of our government’s investments in cleantech do not pan out.
Unscrupulous people, as well as tens of millions of idiots, are enraged by these failures and interpret them as evidence of incompetence and/or corruption.
On the other hand, fair-minded people understand that it’s impossible for all these investments to be winners; some are bound to fail as the advancement of technology makes unforeseeable twists are turns.
The plummeting costs of solar PV and wind over the past 10 years wiped out a great number of investors in both the private and public sectors, and solar thermal (shown here) was only one.
As an example, I used to attend the annual conferences on hydrokinetics, and I always looked forward to them. Guess what? They’re gone. They no longer exist, as a result of the fact that the LCOE (levelized cost of energy) of all forms of hydro can’t compete on large-scale projects, and thus have been relegated to small, niche applications.
https://www.2greenenergy.com/2026/05/18/tactic-of-big-oil/
To the reader who sent me this, I remind him of war, various forms of criminality including pardons for cash, treason, and corruption, inflation derived from ludicrous economic policies, racism, educational decline, world ridicule, and environmental collapse.
Outside of all that, I’d say you’ve hit the nail on the head.
I’d also add that “the jig is up,” as they used to say. There are far too few stupid assholes left in this nation to provide any meaningful levels of support to Trump at this point to save him from removal from office and criminal prosecution.
As a human civilization, we’ve been talking about subject for a very long time–to no avail.
Most people who consider this idea belief the problem is greed. In fact, Socrates said, “All wars are about money.”
I’m sure what Voltaire says here is true, but what’s the value in “raising oneself above the ideas of the time.”
Right now, human civilization is tottering on the brink of world fascism and environmental collapse. We need real solutions to precisely these issues.
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