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IP: Opportunity & The New Energy Resource Alliance Project
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 11:07:13 -0500
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 21:47:33 -0500 From: jgill <jgill () penfield-gill com> Dave, Happy New Year! IP members might be interested in a short essay of mine at: http://www.penfield-gill.com/presentations/essays/ERA98.html The first two paragraphs: Opportunity & The New Energy Resource Alliance Project Is the carbon-dependent view of our energy and environmental options, as widely advertised by some, the only choice we have? What if we change energy strategies? Is it a given that we must we lose jobs? Live in cold, dark houses? Drive less and pay more? Forget cookouts and mowing the grass? Or could it be instead that the energy situation we face today is a huge, and vastly profitable, business opportunity? Consider that 40% of the worlds population, 2 billion humans living in over 600,000 villages, have no electricity. This suggests that we are currently producing only about 60% of the electricity the world requires! I.E., the market needs to grow tremendously. Changing energy strategies presents us an enormous opportunity for a better quality of life as well as an enormous market to develop. Far from decreasing global energy production, it must be increased dramatically. This is the only way the Industrialized Nations can meet their obligations with respect to the Less Developed Countries. Yes, energy should be used more efficiently and with better understanding and wisdom, but no amount of conservation will ever deliver electricity where there is none. Regards, Jock -- ____________________________________________________________________ Jock Gill jgill () penfield-gill com www.penfield-gill.com ____________________________________________________________________
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