I respect your view of the market, but you are mistaken about something.In case you didn't study the history of conventional power supplies, coal, nuclear, oil, and natural gas were all developed with governmental financial support, both in subsidies and tax credits; without the billions of dollars spent on developing any of these, none of them would be viable. Comprehensive data on the investments in the research for each of these sectors over the years is provided in Hermann Scheer's book "A Solar Manifesto".I agree with the free market in principle, but it is not honest if one does not admit that the energy market is *not* a free market; it is not a free market when alternatives have to compete with established power sources that were themselves turned into behemoths by government assistance. My preference would be to subsidize none and have them all stand on their own legs, but since assistance has been so asymmetrical towards non-renewables, I fully support doing likewise to alternative power sources such as wind.You also need to consider that our industries compete against companies in foreign countries receiving governmental support for their research and development. Solar and wind power both got started in the US, but now the US is importing turbines from Germany and Denmark, solar panels from China and Japan, and solar thermal technology from Spain. This is a crying shame. It is not a free nor fair market to have US industry compete against renewable energy corporations that were nurtured to competitive strength by foreign governments. Given this recognition that the market is not free, it is a lesser evil to invest in encouraging the development of this technology as well than to do nothing and end up having to import all of this technology from elsewhere; if we develop it here, we can compete and export, and create jobs here in the long run. Pretending to practice free market economics when that is not the reality facing the domestic players simply dooms them to fail and dooms us to importing what we should have developed ourselves.