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Re: Solar Energy



Bob Apthorpe <apthorpe@delphi.com> wrote:

>Why would I want to generate my own electricity when I can pay someone else
>to do it for me?

I used to work for Western Union, 20 years ago. Many of the vice presidents
still had their old telegraph sounders on their desks. One of their corporate
goals was to "exploit the world of data communications, at 50 baud and below."

Early in the company's history, Alexander Graham Bell spoke with the president
of Western Union, offering to sell them his "telephone" invention for $8,000.
The president told him that was a ridiculous invention with a ridiculous
price, and said "Why would anyone want to use this 'telephone' of yours
to contact another person when he could simply send a telegram?"

Nick