Sweden, 2020: the world's first oil-free economy
On 4 Jun 2006 11:05:13 -0700, "donquijote1954"
wrote: At first glance, Sweden's oil-free bid may look overambitious. However, this Scandinavian nation of 9 million people has long had the world's most impressive record on environmental protection. If they possess the collective willingness to accept significant lifestyle degradation and incredible expenditure, they can do some significant fraction of what they propose. I do not thing any significant portion of it could be done in a mere 15 years without both of those factors being present; they're essentially proposing to reinvent their society's transportation, energy production and chemical industries, replacing huge amounts of infrastructure in the process, in far less time than it would otherwise have been obsoleted. And, most significantly, they're proposing this without a full set of replacement technologies in existence. -- Typoes are a feature, not a bug. Some gardening required to reply via email. Words processed in a facility that contains nuts. |
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