Because a great many /. users rate comments according to their personal beliefs, not on the actual merit of the comment. Still others are are employed by interest groups to scour the internet and 'promote' their employers views by any means necessary, be that FUD or by down-voting opposing viewpoints.

Yes, technology will save us! Never mind that we've said that before all the previous disasters, this time it's really really REALLY true!!!!

I found Tixati was as close as I could come to what utorrent was in it's prime.

I have personally experienced Telus, a major phone company in Canada, refusing cash payments of their bills due to the cost of handling the money. Also pennies (before rounding was introduced) were only valid currency up to about $2 here in Canada. I have no idea about the other coins but it wouldn't surprise me if there were similar regulations around them.

Utility companies can raise their prices if they wish. Utility companies had the option to be innovative and pursue solar/wind lease agreements where they would own this generation capacity and it's resale would be more profitable. They chose to stick with the traditional model. This was their choice.

In your model the power bill has 2 components: generation and delivery. You feel that it's fair for the customer to pay both. In the scenario where the homeowner is generating the power, it is the utility that is the customer therefore according to your logic it should be the utility that pays for the delivery of that power. If the homeowner pays delivery charges on the power they use, so too should the utility company on the power they use. Considering the power generation and consumption patterns of a typical home, perhaps the utility companies are not paying the homeowner enough delivery on the power generated...

As the amount of variable supply power grows so to does the demand for storage of that power. The market will force utilities to adapt or die through deploying grid storage. The scenario you speak of is still decades away and we have the technology today to make this work. It will only get more cost effective as time goes by.

Please name the governments you consider pro-ACC

Funding grants are given irrespective of the findings. ...unless you're referring to the funding which comes from the fossil fuel industry.

Do you have examples where Al Gore and the Sierra club are promoting belief over science?

Could you clarify your comment? Are you trying to say that the newspaper was promoting good science? Who is the Church of Environmentalism?