Military Leaders Speak Up for more renewal energy
Military Leaders Speak Up for more renewal energy
December 14, 2004 -- last week's conference of the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE), national defense speakers/experts stated it's time has come to shift the nation's priorities from an era of research and development to one of major deployment (of sustainable energy technology).
"We find ourselves dependent on imports from people who, by and large, are hostile to us," Frank Gaffney (former national security advisors to President Reagan) said. "It makes (energy independence) a national security imperative." Gaffney cited the growing scarcity of resources in a world with burgeoning economies and populations, such as China as having the potential to create a "perfect storm." Faced with a scenario of increasingly insatiable and expensive demands for energy, countries like the U.S. and China could find themselves at the brink of war. "Situations like this have given rise to wars in the past, that is not to be precluded here," Gaffney said.
Comment: The sky is falling and DOD and CIA good old boys are saying it.
In other words, the energy problem is so critical at this moment that we must start using what we've got now, whether it's perfected or not: whether it is sustainable or not. If we don't, then we lose everything anyway. At least this will start buying us a little time.
"The conference was convened primarily to acknowledge that the past three decades of research and development in the U.S. have yielded positive results and that it's time to move into a new phase - a broad and deliberate deployment phase."
http://renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=19841
Corporations have sought to take over solar power from the grassroots movement, not in order to promote it, but in order to hold it in abeyance. Under capitalism, it is those energy sources that generate the most profits for capital—of which solar power is certainly not one—that are promoted, not those most beneficial to humanity and the earth. This story has been told by Daniel M. Berman and John T. O’Connor in Who Owns the Sun?
December 14, 2004 -- last week's conference of the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE), national defense speakers/experts stated it's time has come to shift the nation's priorities from an era of research and development to one of major deployment (of sustainable energy technology).
"We find ourselves dependent on imports from people who, by and large, are hostile to us," Frank Gaffney (former national security advisors to President Reagan) said. "It makes (energy independence) a national security imperative." Gaffney cited the growing scarcity of resources in a world with burgeoning economies and populations, such as China as having the potential to create a "perfect storm." Faced with a scenario of increasingly insatiable and expensive demands for energy, countries like the U.S. and China could find themselves at the brink of war. "Situations like this have given rise to wars in the past, that is not to be precluded here," Gaffney said.
Comment: The sky is falling and DOD and CIA good old boys are saying it.
In other words, the energy problem is so critical at this moment that we must start using what we've got now, whether it's perfected or not: whether it is sustainable or not. If we don't, then we lose everything anyway. At least this will start buying us a little time.
"The conference was convened primarily to acknowledge that the past three decades of research and development in the U.S. have yielded positive results and that it's time to move into a new phase - a broad and deliberate deployment phase."
http://renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=19841
Corporations have sought to take over solar power from the grassroots movement, not in order to promote it, but in order to hold it in abeyance. Under capitalism, it is those energy sources that generate the most profits for capital—of which solar power is certainly not one—that are promoted, not those most beneficial to humanity and the earth. This story has been told by Daniel M. Berman and John T. O’Connor in Who Owns the Sun?
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