Environment World

I wrote about the need to conserve energy, not because of global warming, which I flip-flopped on, but to clean up and take the massive funds available in the middle-east. The old cliche that power corrupts is true and more linked to money. Clean up everything and these 20-somethings are the hope as the been for every generation in history

To summarize:

“Energy is unquestionably the challenge of this era,” said Susan Hockfield, MIT’s president Susan Hockfield. “And there is absolutely no question in my mind that the most productive source of new ideas and approaches is today’s young people.” She speculated that no matter how the energy problems of tomorrow are solved, some of the key people to unravel them were probably attending the conference.

“Quick show of hands: How many people here in the audience have a solar system on their roof?” Resch asked. “OK, a dozen maybe. Now how many people want to have a solar system on their roof?”

Promoting Solar Nation, a new activist website, Resch said German subsidization of solar energy has made Germany the world’s largest solar market, seven times bigger than the United States. “Yet the amount of sunlight that falls on Germany is equivalent to Anchorage, Alaska,” he said. “It proves that if it works in Germany, it’ll work great in the United States.”