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Chapter 2

The Green Industrial

Revolution

Woodrow W. Clark, II
Clark Strategic Partners, Beverly Hills, CA, United States

Chapter Outline
How Communities and Nations Move Appendix A: The Danish Case for the
Ahead 13 Green Industrial Revolution 28
What Is a Renewable Energy Power Appendix B: E-mail Surveillance Data
Source? 15 on ENRON 29
Deregulation Beneﬁts: Myths About Appendix C: From Central Power Grid
Economic Efﬁciency as Conservation to Local Distributed Power Systems 29
Is Needed Too 19 Appendix D: Smart Grid That Includes
Better Investment Decisions 19 Local Distributed Power and
Politicized Priorities Excluded 20 Renewable Energy Generation 30
The Issue of Deregulating Agile Energy References 30
Systems 22 Further Reading 31
Conclusion: Economic Development
in an Agile Energy System 26

Time is passing quickly for United States and other nations, while Europe and
Asia now and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have been developing
sustainable, energy-independent communities for the last 2 decades. As a nation
and the leader of democracy for two centuries, the United States must examine
its own “roots” and provide the future direction for humanity. The Green
Industrial Revolution (GIR) is now strongly embedded in other nations so that
these countries are no longer dependent on fossil fuels or nuclear power, which
deﬁned the Second Industrial Revolution (2IR). The GIR primarily generates
stationary power and creates fuel from renewable energy sources.
Nations must take action now to create and implement GIRs for themselves.
They need to reduce the energy dependency on the Mideast, a geopolitical
region whose instability constantly threatens national security and keeps them
from focusing on crucial domestic issues such as health care, ﬁnancial reform,
and innovation as well as the global planetary environmental crisis. Becoming

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