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- From: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk (Michael!)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Japan Takes US to Cleaners
- Message-ID: <7097@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 13:24:43 GMT
- References: <1hc9imINNaq1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Dec28.175000.26453@ke4zv.uucp>
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- Organization: Magic Michael's Mushroom Factory.
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- In article <1992Dec28.175000.26453@ke4zv.uucp>, gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
- |> 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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- maybe, and I realise how hard this may be to swallow, but just maybe the
- Japanese are thinking of the ENVIRONMENT (rather than mere money)!
-
- Michael
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