Profitable Solutions to Climate,Oil, and Proliferation

Protecting the climate is not costly but profitable (even if avoided climate change is worth zero), mainly because saving fuel costs less than buying fuel. The two biggest opportunities, both sufficiently fast, are oil and electricity. The US, for example, can eliminate its oil use by the 2040s at an average cost of 15 per barrel (200015 per barrel (2000), half by redoubled efficiency and half by alternative supplies, and can save three-fourths of its electricity more cheaply than operating a thermal power station. Integrative design permits this by making big energy savings cheaper than small ones, turning traditionally assumed diminishing returns into empirically observed expanding returns. Such efficiency choices accelerate climate-safe, inexhaustible, and resilient energy supply—notably the “micropower” now delivering about a sixth of the world’s electricity and 90% of its new electricity. These cheap, fast, market-financeable, globally applicable options offer the most effective, yet most underestimated and overlooked, solutions for climate, proliferation, and poverty.     

突破性的运输技术,不妥协的车辆革命以及向氢的快速转变

即使其它方面只是相同或略好一些,只要能使车辆的效率提高到现在的4-8倍,就会有助于许多问题的解决,诸如空气质量、油料使用、陈旧的产业结构,以及能源(特别是电力)供应等大问题.运输生产技术的变革具有成为世界环境与经济发展重要源泉的潜力.革命性的开发已经在主要的汽车制造国家进行.这些技术变革也为其它国家的大踏步发展提供了一次机遇.