[p2p-research] A Postcapitalist, Politics for Difficult Times

[Tomas Rawlings]

> For example, we are all too willing to despair over the energy needs of 
> billions of people on this planet without imagining that billions of people 
> (or at least millions) might literally stand up and do something about the 
> problem (like put in solar panels and wind turbines, do R&D on better 
> batteries, conserve helium or invent cooling methods that don't use helium, 
> and so on).
>   
Probably the most optimistic forecast of the the potential for solar I 
have ever seen is Ray Kurzweil - who based on past technology growth 
predicts a rapid rise for solar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43zo82W7aPI

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Tomas

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