¶ Energy Slave (3)
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"Now, I found that our overall use of our= energy, our design, is very bad. We have in America-- and it’s beginning to be that way around the rest of the world-- but at all times in America there are over a million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going, averaging 100 horsepower, and going nowhere. And we try to get the Russians and Americans together with the Arabs and Israelis fighting over Arabia [oil] just to do that kind of nonsense.
“So I find that our overall efficiency is only about 4 per cent, therefore, taking the total energy consumed in what they call a network economy. … If you are on the Eastern seaboard here, and the amount of energy we take in per year, of food and water and power and coal and fossil fuels, and divide that up by 25 you get 4 percent which we are realizing. Then you come out with so many kilowatt hours and you can put that into manpower, and I call that one energy slave.”
¶ Citations
- RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul’69, from Saturn Film transcript, Sound 1, Take 1, pp.11-14.
