Energy Miracles Challenge:
solution to the energy/climate crisis

The Energy Miracle Challenge (introduced in Chapter 7) is a competition designed to solve the world's energy/climate crisis. It is based on the premise that fossil fuels are probably both warming and poisoning our planet, but even if they were not, they are woefully inadequate to satisfy even our most basic energy needs.There's not enough coal in China and India, not enough gas in Europe, and not enough oil everywhere, even in the US. The lack of energy lies at the bottom of the world's most critical problems including hunger, water scarcity, and air pollution. The Energy Miracle Challenge solves these in one fell swoop at a tiny fraction of the cost bandied about at recent climate conferences. It does this by mobilizing all the available resources across the world in countries rich and poor, pointing them in a single direction; putting the brains, available finance, and attention where they will do the most good and actually solve the global warming challenge.

The Challenge should be run by the Conference of Parties (COP),the U.N. body directly overseeing global climate change activities. COP is potentially the most important political force in the world today leadiing as it does, both the attack and defense against the world’s biggest threat. The COP speaks on behalf of all the peoples of Earth, the first time anyone or anything has done so in the 10,000-year history of the planet.

Who can play? Anyone can play and everyone should play. For reasons explained in the book, almost no one in the world really understands energy or electricity. But with a little help from the references therein, almost anyone could learn. There’s not a government in the world that could not afford to enter this game. It doesn’t require a billion-dollar Hadron collider or multi-million-dollar fancy research buildings and laboratories. It requires some interested men and women putting their minds to solving the most important challenge of our time: the understanding and harnessing of energy. It doesn’t even require a government to play. Any company or organization can enter. A school can enter. Single individuals can enter, or if preferred, several can jointly enter as a team. Governments can invest in corporations to enter. Corporations can partner with institutions. The winner simply must actually solve the problem, which is initially to find an energy source that can replace electricity from fossil fuels. There is absolutely no restriction as to gender, age, race. The rewards are unbelievable, for both the winners and the entire planet. And the race is on.

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