The Obama administration has always supported alternative energy, but the recent decision to support offshore drilling projects has backfired with the recent Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. With world opinion galvanised against offshore drilling and an environmental catastrophe in the making, could the future be bright for alternative energy?
In the US, wind power has been credited as the renewable energy that offers the most potential and recently that seemed to be the case, with the Cape Wind farm being green-lit and others planned for the areas around the Great lakes, but according to the American Wind Energy Association it seems the air has been taken out of wind power's sails.