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Saganista, as you point out in several posts, ethanol, recycling, etc... are not solutions unto themselves, however collectively they do add up. The combination of wind, solar, geothermal, bio-diesels, recycling, home and building construction, power generation could all add up to significant returns.
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Absolutely agree. These and simple conservation are all steps that help lessen the potential problems. But in the bigger picture, these are all strategies for buying time. We may need all of that we can get.
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One of my personal gripes is that we don't see the long term of anything and have little future vision. We see the world in terms of the next fiscal quarter instead of the next decade or generation.
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Harvard Business School Syndrome. It's the way of the Modern Businessman.
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As much as I love space and the notions of exploration, I think it would be a wonderful idea to have a grand national goal of energy independence in 25 years. When Kennedy said he wanted to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, rockets only existed in their modern form for 20 years. I guess I am just the eternal optimist as I do believe it could be done if we had the will to do it. As a fella from NASA once said, "We used to ask IF we could do it, now we ask, can we afford to do it."
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I don't know how long it will take. Maybe 20 years, maybe 25, maybe 50. Or maybe the clock will run out on us before we ever get there. But the March of Dimes had no idea how long it might take them to conquer polio either. They didn't let that hold them back.
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