Posted on 06/30/2009 10:42:38 AM PDT by energylover
There is a popular myth that Al Gore invented the Internet. Never to be out done, he went on to be the father of Green, won a noble prize, Emmy etc. The man is a genius, so he thinks.
Bob Metcalfe, is the inventor of Ethernet (as in he has the patent, not a noble prize) which is a critical foundational technology for the Internet. His classmates at MIT were key players in Email, FTP, TCP/IP, etc. And no, Al gore was not in their graduating class at MIT.
Metcalfe's perspective on how to solve the energy problem is radically different than Gore. Metcalfe, based on his real and successful experience actually doing something that has changed our lives, believes that the pathway to climate salvation will be the development of Clean and Cheap energy. This notion of Cheap is critical to his perspective. Where Gore wants to limit and conserve, Metcalfe wants to expand and make efficient. Now think about this, computers use to be expensive, over time they became cheaper, new applications were developed, society shifted, the world operates in a different manner. I would argue in a better manner. Metcalfe suggests (again based on real practical experience) that the dire climate predictions will be swept away by entrepreneurs who blow our mind with market derived innovation.
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” the dire climate predictions will be swept away by entrepreneurs who blow our mind with market derived innovation.”
Lost me when i read that religious language, the false religion of CO2 drives temperature. Never has never will.
The US sits on top of 3 Trillion barells of oil, enough for 275 years and total independence from OPEC.
His presentation is rather long-winded but boils down to:
“We need to increase research to find a ‘silver bullet’-style source of cheap, abundant energy and then have a decentralised energy distribution network called ‘Enernet’.”
What this has to do with ‘green’ is not really clear to me. And whether waiting for silver bullets is the wisest strategy is quite debatable.
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