competes with the chinese. that way we don t spend any money until someone actually delivers and people have an incentive to produce. we ve solved problems with this in the past. we ve got ongoing examples of this with things like the x prize. we know how to endeuce technological innovation it and we re not doing it. it seem ls like we don t care. professor, i agree with you. if you don t have integrity in the narcotmarketplace, the marke can t function. i agree that it s almost as if we are choosing to not do that. we rather have politicians that we buy for favors than a system that solves our problems, by all appearances. although based on my audience, professor, i can assure you that there s no shortage of people that want to change that. thanks to the panel. thank you to professor morris. next, here, what you what did you eat for lunch? excuse me.
government simply does not have enough information. and quite honestly, i don t know that any one institution has enough information, to spur innovation in this particular marketplace. centralized control of picking winners and losers in a highly changing environment is an almost impossible task, which is why our next guest says that should be left to the marketplace to decide who wins, loses, and leads the field. and joining us now is andrew morris, a the university of alabama and co-author of the false promise of green energy. i ve read your notes, professor morris, and i agree with you in the need for adapted experimentation and all the rest of us. we say the free market, and argue the free market should drive energy, but the fact of the matter is, we, you and i both know, don t have a free market for energy, because the actual cost of fossil fuel in our economy is not reflected at the pump. the military s not in there, the