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Alternatives to Alternative Energy / H. T. Goranson, Project syndicate, 5/04/2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/goranson11/EnglishThe problem of long-term energy sources has been drifting towards crisis  for decades. Indeed, the catastrophes in Japan might finally achieve  what decades of conflict in the Middle East have not: compel governments  to invest in the research required to develop viable energy  alternatives...