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I have enclosed the WORD formatted letter for your perusal, as the following may not print out correctly. Thanks. Mark Bill Gates’s Clean-Energy Moon Shot Famous people do famous things and that’s for sure. I have interests neither in making “money out of this thing” nor “benefit from your invention or your trade secrets” as he does, but then those things are what’ve made him famous in the first place. But I do want to congratulate him for his efforts to hire more STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) workers desperately trying to find work than currently available on the labor market. Moon shot or not, the question remains whether his clean energy sources can compete without or with only limited financial incentives/subsidies with his peers’ C. O. G. (Coal-Oil-Gas) energy sources. Let’s leave his personal energy investment in nuclear energy source out for the moment, the short answer is no unless basic energy research workers can find and bring in, on the market, renewable sources as cheap and profitable as C.O.G. sources. In the world of capital, machineries that last “forever” simply cannot survive the capitalist logic just as perpetual motion cannot beat physics. (See for an example, Message: 2 Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 19:30:54 -0500 from: "Mark Wain" <[email protected]> Subject: [Pen-l] why do the Koch brothers oppose renewable energy? To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii”) One may question my line of thinking for this matter by saying how about finding or even synthesizing a new, safe, non-subsidized and non-oxidization-based fuel as a viable replacement of the C.O.G.? Nothing is impossible, but how likely this can be brought into effect and not into some miracles? Bill Gates’s Clean-Energy Moon Shot By ANDREW C. REVKIN FEB. 23, 2016 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/opinion/bill-gatess-clean-energy-moon-shot .html?action=click <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/opinion/bill-gatess-clean-energy-moon-sho t.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion -c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-r ight-region&_r=0> &pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region ®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0 Mark Wain
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