New Technologies

You've got the right idea, insane. We need fundamental new technologies. The problem is, fundamental new energy/transportation technologies simply can't be developed on the cheap, by backyard inventors. They're too powerful. They have a tendancy to blow up the entire neigborhood, unless proper precautions are taken. That's why it was so incredibly expensive to develop the rockets that went to the moon. You see, if everything didn't work exactly the way it was supposed to, the entire multi-million dollar apparatus vaporized itself and everything within a several hundred yard radius. This makes the necessary empirical steps required in the engineering process extraordinarily difficult and expensive. Every experiment cost tens of millions of dollars. Hence, it really doesn't matter if you've got a theoretical technology that "works". You have to develop it on a large scale, step by step. You have to go through the empirical engineering process, which is a painstaking process, so that everything works just the way it's supposed to, on a large scale. And that process takes very, very big bucks, which no government really has the money to invest, currently. And, they won't invest it, because, if it does work, it will be stolen by other governments before the one that made the big investment can profit from it!!