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Europe is ahead of us in several technologies. Wind really began in Europe, although since General Electric has gotten into it, it's [been] moving to the United States in a good way. Germany made a large government investment in solar. In biofuels, technically we're the leader, and I think this year we'll pull ahead of Brazil in terms of actual production.

Right now the U.S. looks to me as though there's a very robust sort of groundswell of entrepreneurial and technical activity. Clean tech is sweeping Silicon Valley.

You sound pretty optimistic.
I've been deeply involved in the technical aspects of this for some years, and everywhere I look, I see opportunity. It doesn't require any miracles. There's still time for us to achieve improvements or implementation of alternative energies before the problem becomes really a crisis. [But] there is a crisis coming if we don't do something, and the crisis is not widely understood. It's really a political crisis that will be caused by changes in rainfall patterns around the world that cause people to migrate on a massive scale. It's not the drowning polar bears that are the real problem, it's the people who won't be able to feed themselves because of changing rainfall patterns.

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