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Chapters 1 and 2 addressed the critical issues of oil, carbon, and demand that confront us as we try to develop more sustainable patterns of energy use. An important aspect of that quest is to think about the future and prepare a vision that can illuminate the possibilities and inform action in planning, policy, consumer choice, and technology development.
We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy–sun, wind and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
–Thomas Edison to Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone (1931)
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Randolph, J., Masters, G.M. (2018). Energy Futures. In: Energy for Sustainability. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-821-3_3
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