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There is one alternative energy source that is powerfull and clean: fusion energy.

Unfortunately investments needed to make it work are quite huge and they won't pay back until 30 years later. Politicians being short-sighted as they always have been (GWB: "in the long turn, we're all dead") don't want to push money into something that will give menefits when they are dead or forgotten. Especially when there is already a source of energy like fossile fuels. Sure, you need to make few wars now and then to keep it flowing but at least results are nearly instant.

Burning hydrogen in internal-combustion engines is quite cleans but produces NOx, which isn't good.

My dream is a couple of gigantic fusion-energy plants producing electricity. Some of that electricity can be used to produce hydrogen.

There is no danger of "blowing up" either, as soon as something is wrong, process automatically stops as plasma is cooled down in contact with reactor walls. There is no radioactive waste either, just low-active reactor walls (due to neutron-bombardment).

Fuel is deuterium or tritium, very small amounts are needed and can be destilled from sea water.

That way, OPEC coutries will loose their main source of income. Some of that oil-money is also used to finance terrorists.