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“New World Wide Web” Key to Fighting Climate Change, Expert Says
STANFORD, Calif. -– The key to fighting climate change is for the U.S. to take a leadership role in promoting a “new world wide web of electricity,” according to Michael Powers, board member and spokesman for Global Energy Network Institute, a non-profit research and education group based in San Diego.
Powers made the comments at Stanford University’s recent conference, “Energy in the Developing World: Working toward a Sustainable Future,” held on March 3, 2007. The conference was organized by the Stanford Association for International Development (SAID) and the Graduate School of Business.
“By connecting regional electricity grids around the world into a global network, it will be possible to tap new renewable resources and phase out our worst polluting coal-fired power
plants,” Powers said.
Pointing out that the Earth receives “12,000 times more energy” from the sun everyday than is used by civilization worldwide, Powers said the problem confronting mankind is not “insufficient energy,” but “too much energy of the wrong kind, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.” As a result, he said, the energy challenge is “not a supply problem but a distribution problem.” This, he said, is where the global network comes in. (...)
“Instead of running all of the world’s generators’ half the time – which is very inefficient – we are talking about running half the world’s generators all the time… much more efficient,” Powers said (...) - http://www.terrawatts.com/stanford-news.html
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