{"id":18801,"date":"2017-07-25T19:18:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T23:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=18801"},"modified":"2018-09-02T19:38:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T23:38:51","slug":"horses-to-automobiles-in-nyc-13-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/horses-to-automobiles-in-nyc-13-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Horses to automobiles in NYC: 13 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nThis is how fast energy sources can change:\r\nfrom all horses but one automobile in the 1900 New York Easter Parade\r\nto all automobiles but one horse in the 1913 Easter Parade.\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernpowersystems.com\/features\/featureamory-lovins-and-the-soft-path-40-years-on-5652985\/\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"horses in 1900\" style=\"border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernpowersystems.com\/uploads\/newsarticle\/5652985\/images\/481816\/large\/fig%202%20large.png\"><\/a>\r\n<br>\r\nSource: U.S. National Archives\r\n<\/p>\r\nThe automobile above is easier to spot than the horse below, 13 years later.<!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernpowersystems.com\/features\/featureamory-lovins-and-the-soft-path-40-years-on-5652985\/\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"automobiles in 1913\" style=\"border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernpowersystems.com\/uploads\/newsarticle\/5652985\/images\/481817\/large\/fig%203%20large.png\"><\/a>\r\n<br>\r\nSource: George Grantham Bain Collection\r\n<br>\r\nBoth photographs found in\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernpowersystems.com\/features\/featureamory-lovins-and-the-soft-path-40-years-on-5652985\/\">\r\nAmory Lovins and the Soft Path, 40 years on<\/a>,\r\nModern Power Systems, 31 October 2016\r\nand in\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/5th-ave-1900-vs-1913-2011-3\">\r\n&#8220;5th Avenue, 1900 Vs. 1913,&#8221;<\/a> Joe Weisenthal, Business Insider, 31 March 2011.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n1913 is not even 20 years after\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/buried-under-nine-feet-of-manure-19th-century-horse-predictions.html\">\r\nThe Times of London in 1894 estimated<\/a> that in 50 years every street in London would be buried under nine feet of manure.\r\nIn 1900, the Ladies Home Journal predicted it might take a hundred years\r\nfor automobiles to take over.\r\nThings changed much faster than that.\r\nSure, the rest of the country took longer, but only another decade or so.\r\n<p>\r\nLittle more than a century later, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/u-s-electric-power-source-projections-solar-still-most-by-2023.html\">we&#8217;re already in the middle of a similarly sudden paradigm shift<\/a>,\r\nthis time the conversion of fossil fuels and nuclear power to renewable sun, wind, and water power.\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is how fast energy sources can change: from all horses but one automobile in the 1900 New York Easter Parade to all automobiles but one horse in the 1913 Easter Parade. 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