LTE in the VDT today. -jsq
For millennia humans gazed into the sky and marveled at birds
sailing through the air. While some imagined a day when we would be
able to fly, others said it could not be done. Likewise the idea of
infinite, clean energy might seem unattainable to some, but the
progress we have seen in recent years is astonishing.Since the discovery of fire Continue reading
Remember BITNET, FidoNet, or UUCP?
Nope, the Internet overtook all of those.
And in 20 years that’s how young people will remember coal and natural gas plants,
although the waste-disposal costs of nukes will be with us for ten thousand years.
Solar power is going to overtake all other power sources within a decade.
Here’s why I think that.
Jerry Grillo quoted me in Georgia Trend July 2013,
Sun Dancing: As Georgia’s solar capacity shoots skyward, a new state utility is proposed,
“Solar power is the fastest-growing industry in the world, and
it’s growing along in the same way the Internet did,” says
John S. Quarterman, a Harvard-educated author and Internet pioneer
who launched the first commercial online newsletter, among other
things, and who lives in rural Lowndes County.“Think back 20 years to 1993. How many people had heard of the
Internet? And look at how far we’ve come. What I’m seeing with solar
energy is the same kind of exponential growth. It’s clean energy
that works, and it generates jobs.”
Here are 1992 ten-year graphs of Internet
growth from that newsletter, Matrix News,
using Continue reading
Sometimes he was a prophet:
“We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for
fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy —
sun, wind and tide. … I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What
a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run
out before we tackle that.”— Thomas Alva Edison talking to Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone in 1931
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