Concerning the energy situation in Europe, there are some issues we need to discuss.

First of all, we need to understand, that the energy market is like any other market, it works best if it is free.

How should we understand this? Well, innovation cannot be controlled. The state can invest some money and ressources in an area, and it will develop from there. But the exact result is impossible to know.

Currently we have two paths we are working on, on the big scale.

The first is windmill energy that produces hydrogen. This can, in the future be used in cars and aeroplanes.

The other one is windmills to produce first hydrogen then methanol.

This can ALSO be used as fuel in cars, aeroplanes and ships.

Which technology will end up being the winner? We don’t know, so we should step back, after having invested all the money in the area, and see what develops the best. We will, potentially loose some money, but that is the way of a free market.

Beneath the fuel discussion there is also a discussion on how to make the energy. There are numerous sources, windpower, solarpower, nuclear power, hydrodams and so on.

All these technologies are developing. Again here, we would step back, and the let the market rule. We should help where the help is needed. But we should end up in a situation, where it is the market itself, that drives the innovation and creates the solutions.

State controlled business is and always has been a dangerous construction. It can work, but the market is able to innovate, and what we need right now is innovation to make new ways of renewable energy.

There is another thing we need to talk about, the grid.

When we have made these new fuels, it has to get to the consumer.

This means, we have to understand, that if we want to make a lot of electrically driven cars, the grid has to meet that expectation. That IS the state.

Also hydrogen needs a whole new infrastructure to work.

How do we make that, and is it even realistic?

Isn’t it more realistic just to use methanol, that is a product of hydrogen, and make a small adjustment to the cars we have already? And then just make a stand in the existing gas tanks for methanol.

So we need to understand, that the infrastructure has to follow the demands of the costumer and the innovation.

Again it is a free market, so we should be careful to controlling.

We should pick the winners.

G-d bless the will to find good, reliable solutions to green tech demands.