Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology
Alexis Madrigal
Language: English
Pages: 400
ISBN: 030681885X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In other words: We've been here before. Although we may have failed, America has had the chance to put our world on a more sustainable path. Americans have, in fact, been inventing green for more than a century.
Half compendium of lost opportunities, half hopeful look toward the future, Powering the Dream tells the stories of the brilliant, often irascible inventors who foresaw our current problems, tried to invent cheap and energy renewable solutions, and drew the blueprint for a green future.
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Dynamics of the fossil-fuel industry had also changed remarkably from the founding of the Electric Vehicle Company in 1899 to 1913. In the late 1870s the world’s then-largest oil field in the Petrolia region of Pennsylvania had given out. The boom-and-bust of the region led some to speculate that crude oil was much more rare than it turned out to be. Then, throughout the first decade of the twentieth century, huge oil finds in Texas and Oklahoma, beginning with Spindletop in 1901, began to allay.
Thatyou will at once admit that any businessman who was approached several years ago with a view to purchasing stock in a flying machine company would have feared for the sanity of the proposer. And yet, after it has been shown conclusively that it can be done, there is now no difficulty in securing all the money that is wanted, and rapid progress in aviation is from now on assured. We will have to go through this same course with solar power and I am confident we will achieve the same success.32.
About the irrationality of American energy policy. “As an investor I am here much like a crime victim trying to change a law,” he said. His testimony, which quickly summarized the whole lot of unfairness and regulatory silliness, demonstrated the tremendous carelessness of U.S. energy policy. He noted that the time to plan for the energy supply of the future is when those resources are adequate and cheap. That also happens to be the time when Americans are most likely to ignore the problem.