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"In case you are beginning to feel overwhelmed by the challenges posed by
climate change, Saul Griffith has a plan for how we can win what Michael Mann
(
The New War on Climate Change), John Kerry, and others have declared to be
our war on the ongoing crisis. An Australian-American with a PhD from MIT, the
author is a high-energy scientist/inventor whose thesis focused on
“self-replicating machines.” The idea behind
Electrify is disarmingly simple:
electrify everything while simultaneously creating the green infrastructure to
generate the needed power.
Griffith gives very personal advice: when you are ready to buy your next car it
should be electric. When you must replace your burner, go with Mitsubishi
Heating/cooling units. When the oven wears out, buy an electric range. At the
same time, he wants the government to encourage this by replacing oil subsidies
with incentives for a mass conversion to green energy via solar, wind, and
hydro power. Right now, of course, most of our energy needs are filled by the
burning of fossil fuels: oil, gas and coal. The problem is that those fossil
fuels create 75 percent of the CO2 that is behind climate change."
Via Robert Sanscartier.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
