Discovery is stimulating

So much is being written about the coming so-called stimulus package and whether or likely not it will actually stimulate the economy.

In addition to the many pork like expenditures in the package are payments to encourage the development of more "green" technologies to help remove our dependence on foreign oil. I'll avoid the long discussion of how we have several untapped and potentially large fields of black gold right under our noses and simply ask this, "Why does it take government money to encourage these developments?"

New sources of energy are coming and it is independent research fueling the efforts and some of these discoveries are quite interesting. Check out here, here and definitely here.