Using Clean Energy Sources in the Kyoto Agreement

Male: The third element upon which Kyoto’s success depends is a
commitment to using clean energy sources.

Kirstie Hamilton: One of the most interesting issues in the climate to beat is how
there has been a steadily growing voice from a clean energy
industry and interestingly the insurance industry and asset
management industry turning up in the political negotiations
themselves to give governments a different message from the oil
and car community.

Male: The messages they are sending is that saving energy is good for
business and makes economic sense. In the next century they say,
it’s going to be the businesses that can deliver clean and more
efficient energy that are going to succeed. There are signs that this
argument is starting to be accepted by those who made the most
the worlds’ biggest corporations.

Male: And Ford will be investing more than $1 billion on more fueled
vehicles and emission presage over the next five years.

Male: In the USA, the carmakers are preparing to take on the competition
from the Japan. Since Kyoto, the three big car manufacturers have
plans to phase out gas gasless. In Denmark, more people are now
employed in the wind power industry in fishing once one of the
country’s biggest employers. The oil giant Shell has joined the
European Wind Energy Association with a commitment to capture
up to 10% of the world’s wind power market by 2010. In Kyoto
itself, a giant exhibition showed that energy saving is becoming
big business.

Amory Lovins: In a factory, car factory being built by an American company in
Shanghai we recently reduced the pumping energy by 92%. How
do you do that? Well, it’s not that complicated. We used big pipes
and small pumps instead of small pipes and big pumps and you
make the pipes short and straight instead of long and crooked. By
this, it means you get 12 times less friction therefore the pumps
and motors, probably expensive equipment to fight against the
friction in the pipes give me 12 times smaller and therefore much
cheaper.

Now when the engineer redesigned it this way and so how simple
it was. He said, “This is so obvious. Why didn’t we always do it
this way?”