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"What
exists is possible.
There's an old joke about an economist who was walking
down the street and saw a $20 bill on the pavement.
He didn't pick it up because he assumed it didn't
exist; if it did, he reasoned, someone would have
already picked it up. Many good ideas are slow to
catch on because people assume that if it worked somebody
would have done it already."
By the
way, Trinity's technological processes should have
begun 30 years ago!
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"In
energy policy, the conceptual solutions are now clear.
The more efficient use of energy and the harnessing
of cost-effective renewable resources-sources that
don't run out, such as sun, wind, flowing water, and
biomass-can together provide affordable and sustainable
energy options. Together they can continue to out-compete
and outpace both fossil and nuclear fuels-as they
have so far, despite many official efforts to force
the opposite result."
Trinity
motors can replace any generator in any of these instances
and give, on average, a 30% more productive energy
source.
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"In
the early 1950s, the Dayak people of Borneo suffered
from malaria. The World Health Organization had a solution:
it sprayed large amounts of DDT to kill the mosquitoes
that carried the malaria. The mosquitoes died; the malaria
declined; so far, so good. But there were side effects.
Among the first was that the roofs of people's houses
began to fall down on their heads. It seemed that the
DDT was also killing a parasitic wasp that had previously
controlled thatch-eating caterpillars. Worse, the DDT-poisoned
insects were eaten by geckos, which were eaten by cats.
The cats started to die, the rats flourished, and the
people were threatened by potential outbreaks of typhus
and plague. To cope with these problems, which it had
itself created, the World Health Organization was obliged
to parachute 14,000 live cats into Borneo.(See "How
Not to Parachute More Cats.")"
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"The
true story of Operation Cat Drop-now nearly forgotten
at WHO-illustrates that if you don't know how things
are interconnected, then often the cause of problems
is solutions. On the other hand, if you understand
the hidden connections between energy, climate, water,
agriculture, transportation, security, commerce, and
economic and social development, then you can often
devise a solution to one problem (such as energy)
that will also create solutions to many other problems
at no extra cost. Crafting solutions so that they
multiply is RMI's credo and the basis of its success.
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Here
at Trinity we understand and applaude RMI's story
for our inspirational strategies. Our business values
are to crawl, take all the baby steps, and finally
make enough of an impact to walk our technology across
the world.
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"In
1990, a study by five national laboratories concluded
that increasing R&D budgets by just the cost of
building one nuclear power plant ($3 billion spread
over 20 years) could, by the year 2030, enable renewable
energy to provide a half to two-thirds of the total
energy then used in the United States."
With
the right amount of support and funding Trinity Motors
plans to keep moving forward with R&D concepts,
its not about just selling a motor or generator, that
is just the beginning.
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"Because
devices now on the market can save four times as much
electricity as all U.S. nuclear plants make, at just
5 percent of the cost of building and running them,
it's cheaper to write off any nuclear plant and provide
customers with efficiency. The city of Sacramento,
California has done just that. The Sacramento Municipal
Utility District closed its Rancho Seco nuclear plant,
and is recreating itself as a utility based on photovoltaics
and energy efficiency. The result: more jobs, less
pollution, stable electric prices, and a more sustainable
and prosperous community."
Now,
given this let Trinity replace all those motors with
one that is 30% more efficient. Wow!
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"Although,
America is fairly self-sufficient in most other forms
of energy, with 5 percent of the world's population,
it uses about 25 percent of the world's oil."
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"Some
state governments are harnessing utilities' market motivations
to encourage efficiency, by decoupling utilities' profits
from sales-in other words, ensuring that they're no
longer rewarded for selling more energy nor penalized
for selling less. Such regulatory reform also typically
lets the utilities keep as extra profit part of any
savings created for their customers. Keeping 15 percent
of the savings, for example, spurred Pacific Gas and
Electric, the nation's largest private utility, to stop
building or planning conventional power plants. A decade
ago, PG&E projected 20 new power plants. Today it
plans none. In 1993, it disbanded its engineering and
construction division because it never again expects
to build a power plant. Instead, it will get at least
three-fourths of its power needs from efficiency and
the rest from renewables."
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Here at
Trinity Motors we want to see one of the biggest industrial
revolutions in energy savings. We offer our products
along with our services and enjoy hearing of new concepts
and beliefs in changing the outlook for the world. With
this
in mind please visit http://www.rmi.org
for inspiration in your own journey for sucess and changing
our world views concerning our economical and strategical
explorations.
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