The 174-page report details current and developing technologies, and government incentives and other policies that could lead both the developed and developing world to clean, affordable and sustainable energy supplies.
"The first thing it says, really, is that conservation and energy efficiency will remain for the next couple of decades the most important thing the world can do to get on a sustainable path," said co-chairman Steven Chu, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and director of California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Such steps are urgently needed, the panel said, not only to cut back emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming, but also to extend basic energy services to two billion poor people worldwide and reduce the potential for international conflict over energy resources.
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http://www.thestar.com/article/269234 [Proofreader’s note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on October 23, 2007]
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Competition..........
In other words, a form of warfare against humanity and the ecology, something scientists never dare to talk about, fearing for their jobs by ignoring the waste.
The world could go on very well on a fraction of the power used for inefficient automation and massproduction, simply and solely to make profits for a few.
I've spent 50 years in manufacturing, most of it as owner/manager, and have pretty good idea of the wasted energy used to fire people from productive jobs and steal their wages, by replacing the 1/2 hp. of human energy with 20, or 100 or even 1000 hp. of other forms of energy, including electricity from coal burning plants.
And never mind the waste of water either, because in the warped minds of economists and politicians energy and water are "cheap" and their waste jacks up the GDP...........
Ed Deak.