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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Japan Takes US to Cleaners
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 22:30:39 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- In article <1hc9imINNaq1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, bj368@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike E. Romano) writes:
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- =
- =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.?
-
- As soon as we decide that we want to lock ourselves into major commitments to
- obolete technology for the next 100 years?
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- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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