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Gen. George Patton used to say, “There is no security, only opportunity.” The write-ups about the Kyoto global warming conference seem to have missed a most important aspect of the agreement. It calls for important changes of a technical nature. This is what we do best! No other nation on earth can match the U.S. record for inventing new technology to meet new needs.
Here is an opportunity to develop, both for our own use and to export to less-developed nations, new energy technologies for the 21st century. But don’t expect these new technologies to come from the existing companies in the auto and power generation industries. They have too much invested in the old ways, and a well-founded fear that their huge old companies could not survive the magnitude of change that is involved. Individual inventors and small start-up companies will provide the technology, as they have done in the past.
Venture capitalists, wake up, opportunity is knocking!
THOMAS F. HANSON
Newhall
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The gas expended in Kyoto, Japan, would account for “global warming.”
MELVIN A. LEVIN
Fullerton
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