It's garbage like this that makes me wonder if Obama is on to something about Faux:

http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/10/27/smart-energy-not-smart-enough/#more-4910

"The President visited DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy center, billed as the largest solar photovoltaic center in the country. The company's 90,500 solar panels are able to generate about 42,000 megawatt hours each year, but the project cost $150 million to build and only provides power to 3000 homes, prompting critics to say the administration doesn't have an overall energy strategy."

This kind of crappy reporting really pisses me off.  First of all, emergent technologies are going to be expensive.  Remember when CD players were over 1000 dollars?  Now, you can't give a simple CD player away.  You have to invest in alternative energy, and the initial investments are always going to be expensive. 

We are going to run out of fossil fuels.  It's just a matter of time because they are not renewable.  As far as I know, the sun isn't going anywhere for another 5 billion years or so. 

It's one thing to rip international treaties which set arbitrary carbon reduction standards and require crippling economic concessions for little over-all effect.  It's quite another thing to rip in to those who are working on implementing renewable energy simply because it's too expensive.  A single F22 is $250 million to $300 million dollars.  How many houses does it power?

We should be encouraging these investments, not slamming them for being too expensive right now.  They'll be cheaper later on as the technology improves and goes in to wider use.  Why is this so hard for people (re: Faux News) to understand?