¶ No Energy Crisis (1)
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No Energy Crisis:
"We are on a tiny little planet. Our nervous system still sees the sun set, even though the sun doesn’t set… we’re just rotating out of its sight. We talk about things being ‘up’ and ‘down’ even though there are no such directions. We say the wind is blowing from the northwest when it is really being sucked from the southeast.
"The depth of ocean is really only 18,000th of the diameter of our Earth and yet we think of it as huge.
"They talk about the drought as if there had been no way to prepare for it… but we’ve known how to desalinate since the steamship. Instead of putting some pipes up through the hills, which takes enormous amounts of energy, we should have taken some of the billions we’re going to lose now and desalinate some of the vast Pacific Ocean.
"When we go to the bathroom we waste four gallons of water to get rid of one pint of liquid. We should try dry toilets that don’t splash. There’s no energy problem, its ignorance-- not recognizing that the solutions have always been available until the crisis is upon us.
¶ Citations
- RBF to Karen Winner, Copley News Service; 9 Apr’77
