Roger Hamilton XL Blog, 2 Dec 2008
What do you do when you're 85 years old and just had a pacemaker installed? Singapore Founder, Lee Kuan Yew, chose to fly to Hong Kong and say a few choice words that left us all dumbstruck. After a morning discussing renewable energy solutions with Bill Clinton and a panel of experts, I was sitting with XL Member Merrin Pearse (environmental expert) listening to Lee Kuan Yew, talking to Clinton. Clinton asked him about his view on renewable energy. LKY's answer was on the lines of "Renewable power will be insignificant to the world's needs - even if its successful it will reach 5% of our needs at the most".
He went on to explain that all earth energy came from the sun. Renewable energy came from current sun energy (solar, hydro, wind - all of it). Fossil fuels were our way of tapping into billions of years of stored sun energy and when that runs out, renewables will be a drop in the ocean in comparison.
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