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...CORREA: Should somebody hold a gun to the auto industry's head and force higher fuel-efficiency standards? Actually, in the short run that is usually the right answer. But if you are thinking about a real shift, then probably not. Would you like to be the world's best sailmaker in 1880 and predicate your company on that? You'd probably win the next two years' worth of orders. You have to be the best at the game today, and you have to be clairvoyant enough to know the game in the future...
...CORREA: But car companies are putting billions into a fuel-cell car before they get any money back. The Beijing Olympics in 2008 will have thousands of buses and trucks that will be running either with hybrid gasoline-and-electric engines or fuel cells. If you drive around Beijing today, you see billboards for the "Green Olympics...
...CORREA: Renewable energy is something we should talk about carefully. There is a perception that renewables in a large industrial economy could make up the bulk of our power. But we are just a little too far away from the sun. Whether you're talking about biomass, photovoltaics, or wind moving because the sun heats the earth differentially, it all comes from the sun. If you calculate how many watts per meter the sun puts to the earth and ask whether that is enough to run our very high energy consumption--this is a question...
...ticket office was flexible about letting students bring in friends’ ID cards, said Correa, and workers saw collections...
...It’s going to be pretty tight,” said Correa, who anticipates that ushers and security guards will try to contain undergraduates in the student sections as much as possible...