Now here's a concept for the younger generation:
For the 2010 fiscal year, the president's base budget of the Department of Defense rose to $533.8 billion. (
Military budget of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
That's fairly substantial you'd say - and perhaps even justified.
Or $16.143 billion spending on NASA (
The Space Review: Putting NASA’s budget in perspective)
Even if you half that you'd find that the investment into renewable energy, technologies etc is well below that of getting another man on the moon (which is pretty cool, but totally off this planet!)
We'd sooner kill our enemies and let our planet starve than to feed the billions with renewable, cheap and clean energies that don't pollute!
We can't even make our planet a good home and we're trying to find others to live on?
This budget (US) is crazy....
Though - this article presents some hope (below):
The US renewable energy industry received a major boost yesterday as the release of new budget proposals from both the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Interior (DOI) confirmed that billions of dollars of new investment will flow into the sector next year.
Presenting the DOE's $26.4bn budget for fiscal year 2010, energy secretary Steven Chu said the new spending programme reflected President Obama's "commitment to ending our dependence on foreign oil, restoring our scientific leadership and putting Americans back to work through investments in a new green energy economy".
US budget proposals spell fresh funding for renewables industry - 08 May 2009 - BusinessGreen.com
Here's hoping!!!
Basically - less than 5% than that of the Military Budget will be spent on renewable energy - but it is a far better figure than 10 years ago I admit!