A carbon neutral big island?

[Tahunatics]

There are alternatives to spending tens of thousands of dollars on photovoltaics. You can do all kinds of things with Fresnel lenses which you can buy pretty cheap on eBay or even recycle from on old large screen TV.

I think you'll find this pretty interesting, clean and free energy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud8JZLgNFHE

http://www.youtube.com/user/GREENPOWERSCIENCE

http://www.greenpowerscience.com/

It's going to take a combination of a whole bunch of ideas to make up for the vast amount of energy contained in fossil fuels, which is just super concentrated solar energy stored as carbon.