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Lynd 19 (1:10)
Topic(s): Biofuels / Future Transport
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On what basis are we trying to plan for the future? Are we
trying to plan for the future by extrapolating the present?
Well, that's fine, except— I mean, many people do that;
in fact, many people would say, "What else could you do?"
Problem is, if you want that future to be sustainable and
secure, as far as I can tell—and this is my life's
work—it is just as— it's essentially impossible to
get to a sustainable and secure energy future by extrapolating
the present.
And so to me, if that— If the discussion is "how would
we get to a sustainable and a secure energy future?" the only
games in town are ones that include combinations of innovation
and change. And if you're prepared to bring innovation and
change to the issue of biomass fuel production, all
indications available to me are it can be fantastically
cost-competitive, fantastically environmentally advantageous,
and that we can make a very, very, very large, truly
substantial historic contribution to mobility demand, with
potentially a modest or even zero allocation of new land to
the proposition.
