04-01 PEI
Only in Canada or only in Prince Edward Island? It was 1976, and I put a call to the Premier of PEI for a meeting, and Premier Alex Campbell answered the phone himself. “Come down”, he said. “and join with me and the full cabinet for a lobster lunch.” And that is what happened.What was…
04-02 Denmark
Cruising out of Copenhagen in 2009 was highly educational. Those offshore wind turbines in Denmark were huge and there were hundreds of them. Wind provides about 20% of the nations electrical power which makes Denmark the number one user of wind energy in the world.Then there was Sweden moving away from fossil fuels and going…
04-03 Japan
Only in Japan. A bus driver with a university degree in languages that also served as a tour guide. An example of Japanese productivity. He told us during a 1986 tour of Japan that he had to promise his father that he would never live in a two-story home because of earthquakes. And that explained…
04-04 China
It was a surprise seeing so many people in Beijing in 1985 wearing gauze masks to purify the air from all the coal-related pollution. And, although coal was king when it came to the generation of electrical energy, most of the pollution was coming from people’s homes where it was used for heating and cooking.The…
04-05 The Future
The Eiffel Tower in Paris is about 1063 feet tall. Well, a new wind turbine manufactured by General Electric in France is about 853 feet tall. The attached photo shows one of their turbine blades being manufactured in its plant in Cherbourg. Think of something the length of a football field.During my political years when…