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Electricity generated by windmills, sponsored by one of the last of the iconoclastic oilmen.
Electric powered automobiles that actually have a driving radius between recharges of more than an hour or two.
We’ve looked at wind power several times [mm294: Making the world unsafe for bats and birds; mm220: It’s all about power; mm204: Wind power – Ugly, noisy, destructive! Who knew?] in this nanocorner of the ‘Sphere© as an idea whose time has arrived.
And we caught the first inklings of Shai Agassi’s ambitious electric dream earlier this year [mm271: The automobile post – diesel / electric].
Leave it to Tom Friedman of the NYTimes, global strategic thinker that he is, to make the connection.
Texas to Tel Aviv
Op-Ed Columnist | By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN | Published: July 27, 2008
What would happen if you cross-bred J. R. Ewing of “Dallas” and Carl Pope, the head of the Sierra Club? You’d get T. Boone Pickens. What would happen if you cross-bred Henry Ford and Yitzhak Rabin? You’d get Shai Agassi. And what would happen if you put together T. Boone Pickens, the green billionaire Texas oilman now obsessed with wind power, and Shai Agassi, the Jewish Henry Ford now obsessed with making Israel the world’s leader in electric cars?
You’d have the start of an energy revolution.
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