Hi Back In the Game,
You have not produced one scintilla of evidence...."Convincing other countries to change their ways"....by removing tariffs on Chinese Goods?they are not improving their ways 60+new coal fired power houses this year alone....One decent volcanic eruption and all you have achieved will go up in smoke anyway....
You might get a warm fuzzy glow reflecting on how virtuous you are,but you are condemning our young people to poverty and perhaps servitude....What we have and our incredible prosperity comes from the Petro Chemical Industry,elsewise my Sons would be toiling at the Plow behind a Horse like their Grandfather,harvesting Wheat and Straw with a Scythe...You are tilting at Windmills.
No, all that has achieved is slowing down progress on cleaner, more sustainable energy sources as these companies buy and bury any patents that they can that will challenge their supremacy or potential competition to their industries and spend millions and millions of dollars to lobby Congress and governments to get favorable laws for them and help make it harder for competition against them.
Ever hear of Nikolai Tesla? If they wouldn't have pulled his backing the whole would have free energy pulled from the atmosphere. His plan was provide free electricity to the world thru the air(aether) and he nearly finished his project at Wardenclyffe when JP Morgan who was his financial backer leaned of his plan and pulled his financing.
Why? Because there was no way to charge for it and they weren't about to give it away for free.
Funny he transmitted electricity wirelessly out in Colorado for over dozens of miles and scientists these days were ecstatic when they figure out how to do it over 6 or 7 feet and still have never figure out how to replace what Tesla did.
Human greed and desire for control, power and money is at the root of all of the major blockers to more efficient energy sources that could have been in use for decades or more by this point.
You honestly think that with all the technological innovations that have been created over the last 100+ years, they haven't been able to come up with much of an improvement on the internal combustion engine which remains largely unchanged?
They come out with huge technology advancements in electronics and computing and cell phones every year or two but nobody has figured out any major improvements to the combustion engine in 100 years?
And guess who is leading oil producer in the world? The US... by almost double Saudi Arabia who is 2nd...wonder why there hasn't been anywhere near as much progress here as there should have been. Hmm...doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.
Comical bro...go back to peddling your nonsense to someone dumb that doesn't know better.