For the coming days
On oil and the need for renewable energy:
There are gargantuan energy-income sources available which do not stay the process of nature's own conservation of energy within the earth's crust 'against a rainy day.' These are in water, tidal, wind, and desert-inpinging sun radiation power. The exploiters of fossil fuels, coal and oil, say it costs less to produce and burn the savings account. This is analogous to saying it takes less effort to rob a bank than to do the work which the money deposited in the bank represents. The question is cost to whom? To our great-great-grandchildren, who will have no fossil fuels to turn the machines? I find the ignorant acceptance by world society's presently deputiezed leaders of the momentarily expedient and the lack of constructive, long-distance thinking -let alone comprehensive thinking- ... render dubious the case for humanity's earthian future.
Buckminster Fuller in Utopia or Oblivion, 1969
There are gargantuan energy-income sources available which do not stay the process of nature's own conservation of energy within the earth's crust 'against a rainy day.' These are in water, tidal, wind, and desert-inpinging sun radiation power. The exploiters of fossil fuels, coal and oil, say it costs less to produce and burn the savings account. This is analogous to saying it takes less effort to rob a bank than to do the work which the money deposited in the bank represents. The question is cost to whom? To our great-great-grandchildren, who will have no fossil fuels to turn the machines? I find the ignorant acceptance by world society's presently deputiezed leaders of the momentarily expedient and the lack of constructive, long-distance thinking -let alone comprehensive thinking- ... render dubious the case for humanity's earthian future.
Buckminster Fuller in Utopia or Oblivion, 1969
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The man the world needs at the helm of the "alternative energy" initiative, Amory Lovins(http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid166.php) founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute and one of the authors of the book "Winning the Oil Endgame" (http://www.oilendgame.com...books is available for free online). His proposition is that "the U.S. can get off oil and revitalize the economy led by business for profit. This is driven by business logic and economic fundamentals."
Here's a video (long, but worth it) to introduce you to this school of thought (http://www.rff.org/Events/Amory-Lovins.cfm). watched him speak on BBC hardtalk. This man is a genius, but not one who simply writes esoteric theories but is also a "do-er" if there ever was one.
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