Albert Einstein called R Buckminster Fuller the greatest genius he had ever met. Fuller's main philosophy and goal was to make every human a success and to bring maximum wealth to every human by using his technique that he called ephemerlization or doing the most with the least amount of resources and energy or in other words maximizing efficiency. His geodesic dome was a quintessential embodiment of that principle. A geodesic dome is a structure with a maximum amount of structural integrity that uses a minimum amount of material to enclose space. Fuller was not only a great inventor, architect, philosopher and design scientist he was a great visionary and advocate of using renewable energy technology or what he called "free energy technology...technology that uses the inexhaustible energy of the sun, wind and tides. If our country was not controlled by industries like the coal and oil industries and if we would have taken his advice seriously back in the sixties, all of us would have greater wealth and health today. Global warming and global pollution are two crises too serious to ignore. When we should be scrambling to build renewable energy technology and put in place a serious conservation policy our federal government, with its latest energy bill, has done the worse thing it could do by giving billions of dollars to the oil, coal and nuclear industries and small token amounts of money to develop renewable energy. Our state government likewise has done nothing. Minneapolis could and should show the world what can be done. We can build solar arrays on top of parking ramps and on the south facing sound barriers of our freeways using state and federal funds and generate thousands of kilowatts of electricity for our city. This would not only be a great investment and pay for itself many times over in the coming years, it would create jobs, it would reduce the amount of mercury we pour into our air and water, it would prevent the flow of billions of dollars out of our city and state and it would reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses that we produce. It does not require wars to produce solar and wind energy and it could reduce our dependence on foreign oil. It would reduce our record breaking trade deficits as well. Its simply a win, win, win, win proposition and we can longer delay. These are just a few of the things our city must do. Visit my web site.
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