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ASSETs for Life is meant to trigger multiple interpretations. By definition, assets arespan classst> useful or valuable qualities, persons, or things; an advantage or resource. Assets are associated with various forms of capital - human, social, civic, natural, spiritual and financial. By far the largest energy asset available to the planet is the Sun. Solar power, combined with end-use efficiency (originating from human and social capital) and wind power (a solar-derived natural asset), can deliver virtually all of humanitys energy needs virtually emission-free. It is technically feasible to do this within several decades. It is economically attractive and financially achievable; as well as offering a competitive alternative to the existing global energy system powered by fossil and nuclear fuels.br />br />/span>ASSETs for Life alludes to health, well-being and prosperous living conditions for people and the planets biodiversity, now and for generations to come. It is also an acronym that stands for Apps for Spurring Solar and Efficiency Tech-knowledge. Apps created in a self-organized manner by ad hoc assemblages of self-motivated individuals geographically dispersed around the world. Or what is often referred to as collaboration innovation networks or collective intelligence networks (COINs) focused on achieving a specific goal or mission. So, COINs into ASSETs is about catalyzing a robust cluster of individuals participating in creating, using, refining and evolving Apps that can show cities and rural communities how to secure emission-free local economies.br />br />For readers interested in a lengthier document I am posting a draft chapter from my book-in-progress, Assets for Life, Generating Legendary Legacies (10 Mb): a target_blank hrefuploads/Assets_for_Life_chapter_DRAFT_version_nov_2012_michael_p_totten_pdf_52pp.pdf styleline-height: 13px ! important; font-family: arial,verdana,sans serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background: url(///img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/3892ac9d-3133-4386-b4f1-b1640491a9c5/legacy/fileformat_file.png) no-repeat scroll left top transparent; padding-left: 30px; display: inline-block;>Assets_for_Life_chapter_DRAFT_version_nov_2012_michael_p_totten_pdf_52pp.pdfbr />10.1 MB/a>br />h1>font stylefont-size: 24px;>b>font stylefont-size: 24px;>Crash Course/font>/b>/font>/h1>Humanity’s unceasing ingenuity is generating vast economic gain for billionsof people with goods unavailable to even kings and queens throughout most ofhistory. span stylefont-size: 10pt;>/span>font stylefont-size: 14px;>font stylefont-size: 14px;>Over the past millennium (1000 to 2000),/font> global population increased 28-fold (250 million to 7 billion), total world real GDP rose 1161-fold ($35 billion to $41 trillion in 1990$), and per capita incomeincreased 49-fold./font> /font>font facePalatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif stylefont-size: 14px;>font stylefont-size: 14px;>br />/font>/font>p>font facePalatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif stylefont-size: 14px;>span stylefont-size: 10pt; font-weight: 500;>span stylefont-size: 10pt;>font stylefont-size: 14px;>This phenomenal rise in wealth, assets, and well-beinghas occurred for a number of factors, with access to cheap fossil fuelsspan stylefont-size: 10pt; font-weight: 500;>span stylefont-size: 10pt;>span stylefont-size: 10pt;>being a primary driver this past century. Fossil fuels have admirably served humanity in this capacity, fueling the engine of economic activity, especially access to cheap oil over the past century. Cheap energy, in turn, made access to water and natural resources cheaper, resulting in an 8-fold increase in materials use this past century./span>/span>/span>/font>/span>/span>/font>/p>p>font facePalatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif stylefont-size: 14px;>Most economists assume global average annual percapita growth rates of 2 to 3% in the 21st century. Thisimplies a nearly 10- to 20-fold increase in world GDP over a century. Earth scientists, however, are far less sanguine. A prodigious accumulation of scientific observations, measurements, gathered evidence and findings indicate serious instabilitiesthroughout the biosphere. These intensifying risks pose cataclysmic threatsto undermine, disrupt, and collapse humanity’s vulnerable socioeconomic systems in the years, decades, centuries, and millennium ahead. br />br />Until very recently, with the quick succession of mega weather disasters - hurricanes, span stylefont-size: 10pt;> floods,/span> severe droughts, prolonged wildfires, spread of deadly infectious diseases -- most people simply did not reflect on or take heed of even more frequent and severe catastrophes projected for the decades ahead.br />br />In deriving and consuming multi-trillion dollar quantities of fossil energy resources, their use have unwittingly become a primary driver of most of the global risks and threats confronting humanity:/font>font facePalatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif stylefont-size: 14px;>font stylefont-size: 14px;>br />br />✖ Fossil fuels are the primary driver of climate destabilization./font>font stylefont-size: 14px;>br />✖ Fossil fuels are the primary driver of marine acidification.br />✖ Fossil fuels are the primary driver of acid rain.br />✖ Fossil fuels are the primary driver of smog, particulates, and air pollution.br />✖ Fossil fuels (oil) are a primary driver of international wars and conflicts, which are contributing to ethnocide and genocide. br />✖ Fossil fuels are a primary driver of water and land contamination.br />✖ Fossil fuels are responsible for large releases of mercury, heavy metals and toxic chemicals.br />✖ Fossil fuels are a major contributor to illness, premature morbidity and mortality.br />✖ Fossil fuels are major extractors of freshwater for their operations.br />br />Taxpayers pay good money for accelerating all of this destruction of the planet -- a a hrefhttp://priceofoil.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/1TFSFIN.pdf>s/a>a hrefhttp://priceofoil.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/1TFSFIN.pdf >taggering $700 billion to $1 trillion per year in subsidies/a>. These debilitating impacts are quite like that of humans paying good money to ingest enormous quantities of solids and liquids known to trigger debilitating and deadly diseases. The diagnosis and prognosis from humanity’s “medical community” of a hrefaquarium.ucsd.edu/images/medical_metaphors.pdf>planetary physicians/a>-- a hrefhttp://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/james-lovelock-the-earth-is-about-to-catch-a-morbid-fever-that-may-last-as-long-as-100000-years-523161.html>earth scientists/a> -- is a wake-up call for humanity to change its consumption habits.br />br />Just one assessment among a number profiled in succeeding chapters reveals this in damning details. According to a comprehensive analysis by a href//www.google.com/url?sat&rctj&q&esrcs&sourceweb&cd1&cadrja&ved0CDAQFjAA&urlhttp://solar.gwu.edu/index_files/Resources_files/epstein_full%20cost%20of%20coal.pdf&ei6h-fUP-lM6nuiQL124HwBw&usgAFQjCNFDJZl_t0UkzFVhmzgYersXyc_nDg>Harvard Medical School/a>, the externality costs of coal use in the U.S. amounts to upwards of $500 billion per year. If these costs were factored into the delivered price of electricity consumers would be paying upwards of 37 cents per kWh. That is 12 to 40 times more expensive than end-use efficiency improvements, six times more costly than wind power, and more than two to three times the price of solar PV delivered electricity.br />br />A recent a hrefhttp://unepfi.org/fileadmin/documents/universal_ownership.pdf>global analysis/a> prepared for large-scale institutional investors estimates economic losses from environmental externalities exceed $6 trillion per year, of which fossil fuel consumption accounts for a majority of the costs. /font>/font>/p>font facePalatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif stylefont-size: 16px;>p>span stylecolor: #ffffff; font-size: 10pt;>font stylefont-size: 16px;>i>Revealingfont stylefont-size: 16px;>ly, more than 50% o/font>f company earnings could be at riskfrom environmental costs in an equity portfolio weightedaccording to the MSCI All Country World Index/i>./font>/span>/p>/font>p>font facePalatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif stylefont-size: 14px;>Such bold claims demand substantiation and compelling evidence, which are presented in other sections of this web site. But the more commanding question, of far greater importance, is whether there are more benign ways to deliver humanitys gargantuan appetite for energy and materials for delivering a virtually infinite diversity of goods and services? /font>font facePalatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif stylefont-size: 14px;>font stylefont-size: 14px;>br />br />Addressing that complex question is the focus of b>ASSETs/b> for Life, which is now under development and not yet launched. The sites purpose is to provide a platform for catalyzing a results-driven collaboration innovation network (u>b>COIN/b>/u>). b>ASSETs/b> is an acronym standing for Apps for Spurring Solar and Efficiency Tech-knowledgies. br />br />Free (open source) COIN ASSETs is self-organized, grown and maintained by an i>ad hoc /i>group of users in localities worldwide. The content and activity is focused on promoting acceleration of communities and cities becoming highly energy, water and resource efficient as well as 100% solar powered. There is abundant evidence and accumulated experience showing immense win-win-win benefits, value and accruing assets from such a transformation process./font>br />br />font stylefont-size: 14px;>As with the bold claims regarding the unprecedented challenges of global and historial magnitude confronting humanity that demand substantiation and compelling evidence, so are the bold claims on efficiency and solar technologies are substantiated in other sections of this web site./font>/font>font facePalatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif stylefont-size: 14px;>font stylefont-size: 14px;>br />br />/font>/font>/p>h1>font facePalatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif stylefont-size: 24px;>Tech-Knowledge/font>/h1>font facePalatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif stylefont-size: 14px;>Efficiency is derived from the increasing quality of information and knowledge, which makes possible delivering goods and services in smarter and smarter ways, requiring less energy and material inputs and less waste, pollution, and contaminant outputs. br />br />In the USA, for example, a hrefhttp://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/E05-16_EnergyEndUseEfficiency>energy efficiency gains /a>over the past half century resulted in delivering more than 25 millions barrels of oil equivalent per day -- nearly four times the amount extracted by the century-old U.S. domestic oil industry in 2011. /font>font facePalatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif stylefont-size: 14px;>font stylefont-size: 14px;>br />br />The efficiency gains cut Americans energy bills by nearly half a trillion dollar per year, while also reducing millions of tons of CO/font>font stylefont-size: 14px;>sub>2/sub> emissions at zero cost. Doubling this efficiency through 2050 remains the least-cost-and-risk (LCR) energy service option available for sustaining robust economic growth.br />br />What if nations worldwide were to embrace this superior opportunity for delivering LCR utility, mobility and industrial energy services to the point of use? /font>font stylefont-size: 14px;>br />br />Based on the best available assessments of existing efficiency opportunities plus what is emerging from the R&D pipeline, a hrefhttp://www.energyblueprint.info/>recent assessments/a> indicate the following level of energy services can be delivered globally through efficiency gains by 2050:/font>font stylefont-size: 14px;>br />br />ELECTRICITY /font>font stylefont-size: 14px;>br />delivering the equivalent of 12,800 TeraWatt-hours (TWh) per year 12.8 trillion kWh br /> compared to 20,000 TWh consumed in 2009 worldwidebr />br />HEAT /font>font stylefont-size: 14px;>br />delivering the equivalent of 46,500 PetaJoules (PJ) per year 353 billion gallons of gasoline equivalentbr /> compared to 160,000 PJ consumed in 2009 worldwidebr />br />TRANSPORT FUELS/font>font stylefont-size: 14px;>br />delivering the equivalent of 80,000 PJ of liquid fuels per year 607 billion gallons of gasoline equivalent br /> compared to 80,000 PJ consumed in 2009br />br />/font>/font>h5>font facePalatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif stylefont-size: 28px;>Supply displaced/font>/h5>p>font facePalatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif stylefont-size: 14px;>To put these massive figures into understandable context, these efficiency savings would displace the need for ALL OF THE FOLLOWING SUPPLY (illustrative purposes only, not in these exact quantities):/font>font stylefont-size: 14px;>br />br />/font>/p>table width696 height1230 cellspacing1 cellpadding1 border1 styletext-align: left;> tbody> tr> td>font stylefont-size: 14px;>img alt width134 height121 src//img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/3892ac9d-3133-4386-b4f1-b1640491a9c5/legacy/1919c88522c123e2cd58dfb590b053e7.png />font stylefont-size: 14px;>font stylefont-size: 14px;>/font>/font> 18 million rail cars per year carrying 2 billion tons of coalbr /> For comparison: 17.4 million China rail cars carrying 2 billion tons and 7 million U.S. rail cars carrying 810 million tons in 2011, with the two nations consuming more than half of global production /font> /td> /tr> tr> td>font stylefont-size: 14px;>img alt width141 height94 src//img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/3892ac9d-3133-4386-b4f1-b1640491a9c5/legacy/4dcff654d3f7f695485df537bd721b8e_o63n.png />font stylefont-size: 14px;>/font> 24 million barrels per daybr /> For comparison: 30 million barrels/day (from font stylefont-size: 14px;>4,000-plus offshore oil rigs worldwide in 2011/font>)img alt srcimages/751ddf51-1d73-4978-9a89-be4443084320.png />/font>/td> /tr> tr> td>font stylefont-size: 14px;> img alt width140 height91 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equivalent to 3 Gorges Dam (total of 910,000 MW)br /> For comparison: 1 million MW of global installed hydroelectric capacity in 2010br /> /font> /td> /tr> tr> td>font stylefont-size: 14px;> img alt srcimages/df9ec76c-1da2-4c01-98f9-f8910e0a713d.png />img alt width141 height93 src//img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/3892ac9d-3133-4386-b4f1-b1640491a9c5/legacy/7131fbaa571ebf47f5e0ba264cf91fec.png /> 68 million hectares of sugar cane for ethanolbr /> For comparison: 24 million hectares total global sugar cane production in 2010br /> /font> /td> /tr> tr> td>font stylefont-size: 14px;> img alt srcimages/889d127e-b5ce-42d1-af4f-388f70257fea.png />img alt width143 height93 src//img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/3892ac9d-3133-4386-b4f1-b1640491a9c5/legacy/6c6ee33ad833d62b4065cb3644365a10.png /> 82 million hectares of corn for ethanol br /> For comparison: 162 million hectares total global corn production in 2011br /> /font> /td> /tr> tr> td>font stylefont-size: 14px;> img alt srcimages/768d0fd0-5aa1-42c8-8fe2-45579207028d.png />img alt width143 height99 src//img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/3892ac9d-3133-4386-b4f1-b1640491a9c5/legacy/8d129cc35944c9ad93be8af9471e2e95.png /> 640 nuclear power plants each 1000 MW in size (total 640,000 MW)br /> For comparison: 372,000 MW of global installed nuclear capacity in 2012 /font>/td> /tr> /tbody>/table>font stylefont-size: 14px;>/font>h2> /h2>h3>What about the so-called rebound effect? The argument that efficiency gains induce people to use more energy, cancelling out the energy saving benefits. This has been shown to be a manageable issue, and this pdf discusses the issue in greater detail: a target_blank hrefuploads/rebound section - chapter on efficiency assets for life draft.pdf styleline-height: 13px ! important; font-family: arial,verdana,sans serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background: url(///img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/3892ac9d-3133-4386-b4f1-b1640491a9c5/legacy/fileformat_file.png) no-repeat scroll left top transparent; padding-left: 30px; display: inline-block;>a target_blank hrefuploads/rebound_section_-_chapter_on_efficiency_assets_for_life_draft.pdf styleline-height: 13px ! important; font-family: arial,verdana,sans serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background: url(///img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/3892ac9d-3133-4386-b4f1-b1640491a9c5/legacy/fileformat_file.png) no-repeat scroll left top transparent; padding-left: 30px; display: inline-block;>rebound_section_-_chapter_on_efficiency_assets_for_life_draft.pdfbr />815.0 KB/a>/a>/h3>p>/p>h2> /h2>h2>font stylefont-size: 24px;>The Suns Jewels of Joules/font>/h2>p>font stylefont-size: 14px;>The sun is the largest, and only, nuclear fusion reactor operating in the solar system. Every day, without fail or interruption, the sun delivers in 5 minutes the amount of energy the world economy consumes in a month. The Earth receives from the Sun 3.8 billion trillion photons per second per square meter of reception area. This is about 1350 Joules per second per msup>2/sup> or 1350 watts per msup>2/sup> of area. This amounts to the staggering sum of 120,000 trillion Watt-years per year. For comparison, world energy consumption is 15 TWy/yr -- equal to about an hour of sunlight. br />br />As /font>font stylefont-size: 14px;>font stylefont-size: 14px;>a hrefhttp://www.its.caltech.edu/~mmrc/nsl/energy.html>Caltech Professor Nathan Lewis/a> has articulated,br />br />“The sun is simply the champion of all energy sources. When talking about solar energy, I like to cite what I call the ‘Willie Sutton principle’ of materials science and energy. Willie Sutton was a bank robber who robbed many banks and managed to elude the law for years before he was finally caught. When asked why he robbed banks, he replied, ‘Because that’s where the money is.’ If Sutton were presented with our energy problem, he would obviously say that we should use the sun because, quite simply, that’s where the energy is. Solar energy is, in fact, the only renewable resource that has enough terrestrial energy potential to satisfy alone, with room to spare, the 10–20 TW carbon-free supply constraint in 2050. No other source comes even close.”br />/font>font stylefont-size: 14px;>br />/font>font stylefont-size: 14px;>img alt src//img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/3892ac9d-3133-4386-b4f1-b1640491a9c5/legacy/aad2b547a6374859e28f6cf16093beb8.png />br />source: Professor Richard Perez, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, State University of New York, a hrefhttp://www.asrc.cestm.albany.edu/perez/>http://www.asrc.cestm.albany.edu/perez//a>/font>font stylefont-size: 14px;>br />br />/font>/font>/p>p>font stylefont-size: 14px;>font stylefont-size: 16px;>font stylefont-size: 16px;>i>b>As a rough approximation, solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems installed on 20% of urban area rooftops and available ground areas could deliver 100% of total utility and mobility services./b>/i>/font>/font>font stylefont-size: 14px;>br />br />br />Conceivably this could occur before 2050, or it may take the rest of this century to achieve. The time it takes turns on annual growth rates. Global Solar PV has been growing at an annual compounded rate of 30% between 2000 and 2011. Installed costs of solar PV systems have steadily fallen (to below $2 per Watt for Germanys rooftop systems), while the efficiency output of solar cells continues to rise. The wildcard in sustaining high rates of solar PV growth turns on public policies -- simply providing the same level of robust support governments have provided this past half century to the fossil and nuclear industries would ensure maintaining high growth rates.br />br />/font>font stylefont-size: 14px;>img alt srcimages/0dfa7bd0-3b20-4cb3-9aa8-10911ddb8ded.png />br />br />/font>/font>/p>h2>font stylefont-size: 24px;>WIND Resource Assets/font>/h2>font stylefont-size: 13px;>font stylefont-size: 13px;>Throughout the time it takes solar power to become the worlds dominant mainstream energy supply, the second most abundant solar-derived renewable resource,wind power, could supply most of the worlds expanding new utility andmobility energy services./font>/font>font stylefont-size: 13px;>According to two independent comprehensive assessments in 2012, a hrefhttp://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/23831/Marvel_climate_windpower_2012.pdf> “There is enough power in Earth’s winds/a> to be a primary source of near-zero-emission electric power as the global economy continues to grow through the twenty-first century.”/font>br />p>font stylefont-size: 14px;>br />In recent /font>font stylefont-size: 14px;>font stylefont-size: 14px;>a hrefhttp://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1208993109>proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences/a>, Stanford Professor Marc Jacobson and Univ. of Delaware Professor Cristina Archer reported estimates of maximum available wind power at 100 meters height of 250 terawatts (TW) globally, and approximately 80 TW at 100 meters over land plus coastal ocean outside Antarctica.br />br />b>W/b>ind power has become spectacularly successful, technologically, economically and financially, and solar power is repeating wind’s success in the recent decade. In 2006, for example, China had only 3,000 MW of installed capacity, and was a tiny global player. By late 2012 China surpassed 70,000 MW, reaching nearly one-third of installed global capacity – a 25-fold increase in six years while the rest of the world only expanded by a factor of 2.6. br />br />A 2009 joint assessment by Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and Tsinghua University’s Department of Environmental Science and Engineering concluded that China’s favorable onshore wind resources could provide nearly 25 trillion kWh of electricity annually, more than five times national consumption in 2012. The team also made a key point, that assuming a 10-year feed-in tariff payment per kWh comparable to what is currently being offered, “wind could accommodate all the demand for electricity projected for 2030, about twice current consumption.”br />br />The Harvard team estimates wind power can supply 40 times world consumption of electricity, and more than five times total global use of all energy. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Professor Michael McElroy et al conclude, “that a network of land-based 2.5 MW turbines restricted to non-forested, ice-free, non-urban areas operating at as little as 20% of their rated capacity could supply more than 40 times current worldwide consumption of electricity, and more than 5 times total global use of energy in all forms.” br />br />Available wind resources on the U.S. Great Plains were estimated to be as much as 16 times total current U.S. power consumption. The land footprint of wind farms are remarkably small. Analysis indicate the several million wind turbines that could produce as much power as the U.S. currently consumes would take up less than three percent of the Great Plains region. The wind royalties paid to site the wind farms would generate twice as much revenues for the region than farming and ranching currently generate occupying 75 percent of the Great Plains!br />br />Wind power is an established least-cost-and-risk power supply. Both the United States and China could steadily displace all their current and proposed coal power plants, and most natural gas power, with their wind resources. China has current plans to construct 558,000 MW of coal plants (the US 17,000 MW), and the US projects building 141,000 MW of natural gas plants . When wind (and solar) are phased in with utility bill-reducing efficiency opportunities, the system costs and risks of delivering electricity should be comparable to or less than continuing dependence on coal or natural gas plants powering inefficient devices. This transformational action would also position the two wind-giant nations to seize a substantial share of the multi-trillion dollar wind export market opportunity worldwide.br />/font>/font>/p>h2>font stylefont-size: 28px;>Free COIN ASSETs/font>/h2>p>font stylefont-size: 14px;> The explosive growth of the Internet and near-ubiquitous access to laptops and hand-held smart phones and tablets is radically re-imagining daily activities, services and products. This is fully revealed in a hrefhttp://www.kpcb.com/insights/2012-internet-trends>Mary Meekers most recent annual presentation/a> on the accelerating pace of this incredible tech revolution. /font>/p>p>font stylefont-size: 14px;>span stylefont-size: 10pt;>Less than 7000 days ago, the World Wide Webwas virtually nonexistent, then it exploded, growingnearly 500% between 2000 and 2010, with one out ofthree people now having Internet access.‘a hrefhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/33807202/The-New-Media-Reader>The World Wide Web was developed/a> to be a pool ofhuman knowledge, and human culture, which wouldallow collaborators in remote sites to share their ideasand all aspects of a common project.’/span>span stylefont-size: 10pt;>br />br />Information technology (IT) experts anticipateit will take less than 5000 days before most of humanity will be connected globally to a ubiquitoussemantic Web network. The emergent phenomenonspan stylefont-size: 10pt;>of new value creation and social engagement opportunities occurring through self-organizing web collaboration networks are being examined in countlesspublications (e.g., a hrefhttp://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Main_Page>Benkler,/a> a hrefhttp://cci.mit.edu/pgloor/>Gloor/a>, a hrefhttp://www.journalism.cuny.edu/faculty/jeff-jarvis/>Jarvis/a>, a hrefhttp://michaelnielsen.org/blog/reinventing-discovery/>Nielsen/a>, a hrefhttp://www.shirky.com/>Shirky/a>, a hrefhttp://www.wikinomics.com/blog/>Tapscott & Williamson/a>)./span>/span>/font>/p>p>/p>div classcolumn>p>font stylefont-size: 14px;>span stylefont-size: 10pt;>One of the most promising, productive Internet tools to emerge are Collaboration INovation Networks (COINs). Witness the self-organizing open source COIN initiatives, as evidenced by thebreathtaking formation of Wikipedia, daily growingand error correcting the world’s largest publicly accessible pool of accumulated knowledge and learningresources. In the decade since it was launched, Wikipediahas swiftly established itself as the world’s largestencyclopedia. Within 60 months and six employees,Wikipedia grew to 10 times the size of the largest encyclopedia. br />br />font stylefont-size: 14px;>span stylefont-size: 8pt;>Size of English Wikipedia as of August 2010 (2647Encyclopedia Britannica volumes)/span>/font>br />img width603 height453 altFile:Size of English Wikipedia in August 2010.svg srchttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Size_of_English_Wikipedia_in_August_2010.svg/798px-Size_of_English_Wikipedia_in_August_2010.svg.png />/span>/font>/p>p>font stylefont-size: 14px;>span stylefont-size: 8pt;> Source: a hrefhttp://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/File:Size_of_English_Wikipedia_in_August_2010.svg>Wikipedia,/a> a hrefhttp://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/File:Size_of_English_Wikipedia_in_August_2010.svg>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Size_of_English_Wikipedia_in_August_2010.svg/a>/span>/font>/p>p>font stylefont-size: 14px;>br />As of August 2010, the size of just the English version of Wikipedia amounted to nearly 2700volumes the size of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Thisphenomenal growth has been accomplished with relatively few paid employees (still less than 100). Dailyadditions, updates, edits, and error corrections arecarried out by several hundred thousand volunteers,with content being translated into 285languages. a hrefhttp://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cognitive_surplus_will_change_the_world.html>An IBM research team/a> estimated that ittook around 100 million hours to self-organize andmaintain this open source public knowledge asset. Forcomparison, Americans watch 100 million hours oftelevision ads every weekend./font>/p>p>/p>/div>p>font stylefont-size: 14px;>span stylefont-size: 10pt;>New York University Professor a href//www.youtube.com/watch?vqu7ZpWecIS8>Clay Shirky/a> makes a compelling case that there are more than 1 trillion hoursof television viewed each year by people with Internet access, representing an immense pool of‘a hrefhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_Surplus>cognitive surplus/a>’ that could be harnessed to createother open source public collaboration assets like Wikipedia./span>/font>/p>font stylefont-size: 14px;>br />The specific COIN, ASSETs, involves engaging users in expanding a portfolio of knowledge resources for using to transition local areas to 100% solar and high efficiency end-uses (buildings, smarter urban layout, vehicles and transit-, pedestrian and bike-oriented mobility options, lights, appliances, consumer electronics, office equipment, myriad plugloads, electric motors, etc). br />br />The focus is on peer-production, exchange of software apps, animations, mapping and simulation tools, shared advice, posting of video and audio clips that explain how to accomplish tasks, skills and other learning and capacity building training aspects; Q&As and FAQs, lessons learned, state-of-play initiatives, regulations, policies, incentives, financing methods, monitoring and evaluation techniques and protocols, best performing technologies and methods for delivering utility and mobility services through end-use efficiency gains and solar technologies./font>font stylefont-size: 14px;>font stylefont-size: 14px;>br />br />Check back for further developments. img alt src//img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/3892ac9d-3133-4386-b4f1-b1640491a9c5/441a844266ae68b41431908eeb6368c9.jpg /> michael p totten, founder & principal, AssetsforLife.net. a hrefhttp://linkedin.com/in/michaelptotten>LinkedIn background info/a>.br />/font>/font>/div>/div>/div>/div> /div> /div> !-- /sf_main_wrapper --> /div> !-- /sf_main --> div classsf_extra12>span>/span>/div> div classsf_region7> /div> div classsf_region8> /div> !-- 7 --> div classsf_extra7>span>/span>/div> div classsf_region9> /div> div classsf_extra8>span>/span>/div> /div> !-- /sf_wrapper --> div classsf_extra9>span>/span>/div>/div>!-- /sf_outer_wrapper -->div classsf_region10> div classsf_footer >div styledisplay:block; >Content copyright 2021. 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