STATE-OF-THE-WORLD: It makes you want to cry

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun Jun 23 2002 - 18:07:52 MDT


Meager Harvests in Africa Leave Millions at the Edge of Starvation
RACHEL L. SWARNS
New York Times, June 23, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/international/africa/23HUNG.html?pagewanted=print

It makes me want to cry when you realize that a 100W human
being could be powered by the solar energy falling on a few
square meters of land. All we lack is the technology to
efficiently translate that energy into a useful resource for
humans (or conversely the technology to translate humans into
entities that can effectively use that resource -- probably a
bit harder from a technological viewpoint).

Robert



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