--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > www.steorn.com > > The beginnings of creating fossil free, cheap energy!!
Fascinating. And I just *love* the fact that they open their promo video with the worst things that have been said about them. My kinda guys. Whatever becomes of this technology, I for one am not surprised to see such things arise from Dublin. I went there for the first time a few years ago, and was just knocked out by the creative energy of the place. Yes, there were lamentable things, such as the wanton destruction of "Old Dublin" to make room for newer, fancy-schmancy buildings that ruined a picturesque neighborhood forever. France would never have allowed that to happen. However, France did not go through centuries as the Poorest Nation In Europe, either. Ireland did. While there I met quite a few 30-something Irish who told me what it was like to grow up there, knowing that when they graduated from college, there would be no jobs. There would *never* be any jobs. Graduating from college was perceived as the top of a long, slippery slide to a life of on-the-dole drunkenness and despair and death. The "boom" changed all of that overnight. While I was there a commercial property in Dublin had just sold for the highest price per square meter in the history of worldwide real estate. While not every- thing about the "boom" was positive IMO (especially the Irish people's tendency to plunge themselves into debt now that they had an income), the impact it had on the Irish psyche was. My impression was of a fiercely intelligent and creative people who had gotten their pride and their self esteem back. After centuries of not being able to feel it, new generations of Irish youth could look forward to a future in which they could actually *DO* something and accomplish some- thing. I hope they do.
