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These varied sources would produce electricity for local consumption and clean-burning hydrogen for distribution via pipelines. According to one estimate, a single solar-cell farm covering roughly one-quarter the area of New Mexico could supply enough electrically produced hydrogen to replace all the fossil fuels consumed in the U.S. If the necessary real estate can't be found on the planet's surface, the solar collectors could be parked in orbit, beaming energy to earth via high-power microwaves...
...provide more opportunities for education. Currently television is misused, utilized mostly for entertainment. But I think TV entertainment can be a means for education, as Sesame Street has been. There should be a global project to launch a satellite for this purpose. And perhaps we could operate TVs with solar energy...
...sorts, for example, will lose much of their importance because the manufacture of 21st century products will use fewer and fewer of & them. Even the need for oil, now the most vital of interests in the West, will fall from the strategic agenda as it is replaced by solar power and controlled nuclear fusion. The end of the petroleum age will make the Arab states of the Middle East poorer and less stable but of declining interest to the West. The Islamic world, powerfully resistant to modernization, will tend to isolate itself...
Fluorescent light bulbs, water-efficientplumbing, solar water heaters, returnable beveragecontainers and contraception are the stuff of anew economic wave, he said...
There were already several reasons to think the latter is true. For one thing, the existence of the belt and cloud are natural consequences of established theories about the birth of the solar system. According to such theories, the early sun, formed from a cloud of gas and dust, was surrounded by a disk-shaped nimbus made up of the leftovers. The newborn star's heat drove smaller particles and gases, including water vapor, out from the center. The heavier, metal-rich rock left behind condensed into asteroids and the inner planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Much...