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HIGH POINT: Moved Corning from producing glass to producing fiber optics...
...Internet is a good tool for this for two reasons. First, it’s stronger than the phone networks. Huge amounts of money are spent yearly deploying routers and switches and fancy fiber cables all over the world, and in sending up geostationary satellites to rest above sub-Saharan Africa and beam Internet access (albeit at high cost) to Internet cafes in developing countries. And digitized voice itself is efficient: A standard telephone Internet connection over the same wire that carries a single analog conversation can carry five or six equivalent digital conversations with minimal perceived signal degradation...
...making it illegal will, economists feel, simply reduce the amount of communication that particular country has with the outside world (telecom is apparently, for you ec concentrators, a very elastic good). On the other hand, long-term infrastructure developments like rural wiring and the deployment of higher bandwidth fiber lines—the sorts of projects which Internet cafe owners are in no position to provide and which telecom companies can’t afford as long as they’re losing money to VoIP—are essential if the economic growth in the country...
When it comes to diet, eating healthy is the most important thing. These rowers don’t sit down to a lunch of celery and water—but they do have to severely increase their intake of fiber and fruit. More generally, they have to be very conscious of what they consume...
...suggest that they be offered safer and more fuel-efficient choices. Ultralight but ultrastrong materials now remove the contradiction between big and efficient: cars can be big but also light and safe, saving oil and lives without compromising comfort or pep. For example, a midsize SUV made of carbon fiber could cut fuel use 72%, and the vehicle's extra cost could be repaid from fuel savings in about three years. Our proposals would expand car buyers' range and freedom of choice and increase automakers' profits and competitive strength. Amory B. Lovins, CEO Rocky Mountain Institute Old Snowmass...