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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Subject: Re: Japan Takes US to Cleaners
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.175000.26453@ke4zv.uucp>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
- References: <1hc9imINNaq1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:50:00 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- In article <1hc9imINNaq1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bj368@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike E. Romano) writes:
- >
- >
- >I have to give Japan tremendous credit for this:
- >
- >Just saw on news report that Japanese gov plus major
- >businesses have developed ==100 year== plan to clean
- >the earth, including
- >
- >Sanyo is busy developing cheap solar panels for homes.
- >Mitsubishi heavily into improving wind generation economy.
- >Algae systems to scrub CO2 from air from coal gen plants.
- >Massive solar power systems to supply clean electricity global,
- >with vast arrays in African desert
- >for example, piping electric power worldwide.
- >
- >They took the vision and are moving ahead with it.
- >
- >When will the U.S.?
-
-
- Hmmm. The Japanese have also sunk hundreds of millions into a
- Fifth Generation Computer Project that has gone nowhere. They
- make many bets, but only a few pay off.
-
- The US took a hard, and expensive, look at alternative energy
- systems in the 1970s. The result was that they found them not
- economically competitive with more mainstream energy technologies,
- then or in the foreseeable future. Perhaps in 100 years some of
- these technologies will become economic, but any work done now
- will have it's patents running out in 17 years. So the Japanese
- are free to do the early ground work at their expense if they
- wish, but they won't have exclusive right to reap the profits
- later on when the market is ready for them.
-
- Gary
-
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