Friday,
June 08, 2007
Italy Could Become the World’s
Leading Producer of Renewable Energy
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A
US Economist said; “
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Thanks
to Pat Gabriel
Rifkin urges govt to use
ANSA
June
6th, 2007
With its wealth
of natural resources,
You are
sitting on a treasure trove. Im talking about your sun,
your wind and the snow of the
The environmental
activist said climate change was accelerating the end of the age of oil.
He said
The Renaissance of industrial capitalism
came from you. Thanks to your creativity, the technological era developed, with
inventions such as the radio and the telephone, said
Rifkin, referring to radio
inventor Guglielmo Marconi and Antonio Meucci, who is widely recognized to have invented the
telephone before Alexander Graham Bell patented it.
Today
Rifkin, author of
the 2002 book The Hydrogen Economy, is the founder and president of the
Foundation on Economic trends. He has written 17 books - many of them
bestsellers - on the impact of scientific and technological change on the
world.
Like many
scientists, Rifkin sees hydrogen as the answer to the problem of how to keep
energy flowing when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing.
He argues that
when these sources are available, some of the energy they provide should be
used to obtain hydrogen from water. This could be stored in energy cells and
used when required.
The third industrial revolution, the
hydrogen revolution, will bring great political changes with it,
said Rifkin.
Up to now we
have exploited oil, coal and uranium, resources that are present in just a few
countries, which I call elite energy sources.
But with
hydrogen we will create personal combustion fuel cells available to everyone.
It really will be power to the people, a radical transformation of the human
conscience.
He claimed atomic
energy was a poor alternative to oil, even though it is greenhouse-gas free,
because of the risks and the cost of dismantling nuclear plants when they are
obsolete.
Tuesdays
conference was chaired by former House speaker Pier Ferdinando
Casini, chair of the centrist opposition UDC party.
Casini called on all sides of
the political spectrum to come to agreement on how to revolutionize energy
policies in order to combat climate change.
Rifkin has
sounded the political alarm clock, Casini said.
The American
expert agreed:
We cannot
afford to disagree on certain subjects if we want to save the human race.
All
scientists, even the most optimistic ones, now say we have no more than 30
years to change course.
After the
conference Rifkin took Casini for a spin around
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