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Stirling Energy Systems solar power dishes
three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author Thomas L. Friedman today echoes early call for "geo-Greenism" in 1980 congressional election
The World is Flat author Thomas L. Friedman's column in today's
New York Times,
"Seeds for a Geo-Green Party," in which he says that "Geo-Greenism might attract a big enough following to frighten both Democrats and Republicans into finally doing the right things," harks back to this reporter's "Compute, Don't Commute" Silicon Valley congressional campaign of 1980, in which he called for accelerated adoption of solar power as a means to provide well-paying jobs, an improved environment, and a compelling means of avoiding future energy crises caused by the country's "addiction to oil."
Hollywood gets on-board
These same points are also being made to increasingly-receptive audiences in former Vice-President Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."
Chris Paine's "Who Killed the Electric Car" to premiere in Hollywood June 24, 2006, open on June 28th
Opening on June 28, 2006 at the Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood, California, Director Chris Paine's stunning documentary
"Who Killed the Electric Car?" from Sony Pictures Classics will have its world premiere four days earlier, on June 24th.
rare and historic EV1 promotional hat, circa 1996 (neither crushed and nor disposed of)
"Who Killed the Electric Car?" dramatically highlights and explains the reasons behind the demise of the electric car and argues forcefully for its use as a principal means of reducing pollution and helping drivers in the U.S. and the rest of the world break loose from the grip of oil-exporting dictatorships and profit-mad oil companies.
solar electricity from the heavens can replace oil from dangerous trouble-spots
A particularly elegant energy-transportation-environment trifecta would be possible using externally-powered (by concentrated solar heat energy) Stirling engines to generate electricity at large sites in remote desert areas and an array of localized mini-Stirling engines to generate electricity at homes and businesses, allowing pluggable hybrid electric vehicles to be constantly charging while not in use and powering the majority of short-distance travel at no cost to anyone once the capital costs of building these systems was completed.
learn about PHEVs
learn about the Stirling engine and the "electric sun"
bringing it all back home
And don't miss Thomas L. Friedman's
"Addicted to Oil" on the Discovery Channel at 10 pm on Saturday, June 24, 2006.
Read a "Web Exclusive" MSNBC-Newsweek interview with Mr. Friedman about this program by clicking
here.
Caltech Professor Dr. David Goodstein predicts the end of the age of oil in his 2004 book, Out of Gas
You can listen to a June, 2004, audio interview with California Institute of Technology Professor David Goodstein talking about his then-recently published book,
Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil, by clicking
here.
Venus transits Sol, June 8, 2004
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