Government should give tax breaks for companies who use renewable energy. That might encourage them to actually use renewables as well as stimulate the renewables sector since there would be increased demand.
There has been several proposed projects in the past but I would like that at least someone focus on extracting energy from waste. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas and the less we pump out, the better. I don't know much about chemistry but I read that when burning methane, the byproducts would be just water and carbon dioxide. Sure, CO2 is still a greenhouse gas and it's one that we're producing the most but it's still less potent than methane.
I remember Kaoshiung in Taiwan has converted an old dump site into a power plant (more reasons to segregate trash). Here in my 3rd world country, there are hog farms that collect the waste into a covered tank to produce methane, which they burn for electricity as well as for cooking.
In fact, a lot of methane. At the bottom of rivers, marshes, seas. It's silly not to use it. Can be to combat the greenhouse effect we need to protect our forests? Incentives for the production of electricity from solar panels will not help because traditional power is cheaper.
Had we decided to use methane from the very beginning we probably wouldn't have this problem. Unfortunately the cheap fuel available when Ford made the combustion engine was crude oil. Or rather, what was left of crude oil after kerosene was distilled. It was basically a throw-away they thought it was really brilliant to use it for powering engines rather than just allowing it to be dumped into rivers. If they only knew...
Back to methane, I would still prefer we use those generated from biodegradable we threw away. I think that's still better than having to go ruining environment again.
Sigh, if it's only possible to just suck methane and CO
2 out of air...