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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Subject: Re: Japan Takes US to Cleaners
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.203055.6868@ke4zv.uucp>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
- References: <1hc9imINNaq1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Dec28.175000.26453@ke4zv.uucp> <7097@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 20:30:55 GMT
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- In article <7097@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk writes:
- >In article <1992Dec28.175000.26453@ke4zv.uucp>, gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >|> 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.
- >
- >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)!
-
- Money is never *mere*. It separates the feasible from the infeasible.
-
- Gary
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