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Saturday 7 May 2011
Powering the Dream — the history of 'green'
"In 1900 people could use the sun to heat the water for their shower. They could drive across New York City in and electric taxicab. Even if these cabs did not work perfectly, they did exist all before most people even had a single light bulb in their home. In 1945 people could have purchased a solar house or gone to see the one-megawatt wind-turbine [and] in the 1980s people would have seen massive solar fields in the Mojave Desert"
"We in the West have been 'green' for a long long time, but very little of these innovations have made their way into our daily lives. In fact we are constantly re-inventing the same wheel." — By Design, ABC Radio National
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