SECOND-QUARTER-1995
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Buckminster Fuller
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A Centennial Symposium and Celebration—
Rediscovering the GENIus in
us all
Please join us for this once-In-a-lifetime
event. July 14-16, 1995 San Diego, CA
Dear GENI Friend;
The global energy grid is
the World Game's highest priority objective.
Ten years ago, this sentence from Critical
Path (page 206) launched the GENI project.
Because or your support, many energy planners
and policy makers around the wand are now aware
of this powerful vision and are advocating projects
on every continent.
Buckminster Fuller, the source of this vision,
would have been 100 years old this July 12,
1995. To honor and give tribute to the man Called
the Leonardo Da Vinci of our
century, GENI is co-hosting a three-day
Centennial Symposium and Celebration in San
Diego. Bucky said that we wore all born geniuses--but
were damaged in our youth by our environment
and societal ignorance of humanity's option
to make it. With this event, we invite you to
Rediscover the GENIus in us
all.
You will get to play the World Game and
engage in the fundamental question: How
do we make the world work for 100% of humanity
in the shortest possible time through spontaneous
cooperation without ecological damage or the
disadvantage to anyone?
Study with the students and business people
who worked side-by-side with Bucky in all his
interests: cartography, mathematics, architecture,
energy, education, transport, and atomic structures.
Learn why comprehensive
anticipatory design science is essential.
In previous issues of this newsletter, you
have heard from many global experts about the
validity of linking electrical systems between
regions. Today we offer you the insights from
Buckminster Fuller directly. His quotations
make clear the elegance and efficiency of this
global solution--and why he called the energy
grid, the world's highest priority objective.
Invitations have circled the globe, and
our new Home Page (http://www.geni.org/) is
available to all on the Internet. Come join
us in San Diego. Like never before, this is
an opportunity to study the genius and vision
of Dr. Fuller. It will change your life forever.
In partnership for the planet,
Peter Meisen
President
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GENI DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS: Len Bateman,
Sara Beattie, Lowell Blankfort, Anthony Davis,
Graeme Edwards, Joe Falcon, Floyd Geis, Nyhl
Henson, Bill Shopoff, Joanalys Smith, Kerry
Zurier, Peter Meisen
GENI EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Patricia Stevens
GENI ADVISORS: Raghbir Basi, Milton
Byrd, David Cline, Mike Fisher, Mark Victor
Hansen, Robert Kiyosaki, Terry Lipman, Karen
Morgan, Robert Muller, Glenn Olds, Malcolm Roberts,
David Steven, Marshall Thurber
Newsletter produced
by Writing by Design, Jamul, California
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Buckminster Fuller on the Global Energy Grid
Graphs of each of the world's 150
nations showing their twentieth-century histories
of inanimate energy production per capita of their
respective populations together with graphs of those
countries' birthrates show without exception that
the birthrates decrease at exactly the same rate that
the per capita consumption of inanimate electrical
energy increases. The world's population will stop
increasing when and if the integrated world electrical
energy grid is realized. This grid is the World Game's
highest priority objective.
Critical Path, 1981, Fuller and Kuromiya
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I have summarized
my discovery of the option of humanity to become omnieconomically
and sustainably successful on our planet while phasing
out forever all use of fossil fuels and atomic energy
generation other than the Sun. I have presented my
plan for using our increasing technical ability to
construct high-voltage, superconductive transmission
lines and implement an around-the-world electrical
energy grid integrating the daytime and nighttime
hemispheres, thus swiftly increasing the operating
capacity of the world's electrical energy system and,
concomitantly, living standard in an unprecedented
feat of international cooperation.
Cosmosgraphy, 1993, Fuller and Kuromiya
When Buckminster Fuller
was asked by a 12 year old boy, How
would you suggest solving international problems without
violence? he answered: I always
try to solve problems by some artifact, some tool
or invention that makes what people are doing obsolete,
so that it makes this particular kind of problem no
longer relevant. My answer would be to develop a world
energy grid, an electric grid where everybody is on
the same grid.
All of a sudden there would be no problems any more,
no international troubles. Our new economic basis
wouldn't be gold or dollars; it would be kilowatt
hours.
Fuller's Earth, 1983, Richard Brenneman
Because energy is
wealth, the integrating world industrial networks
promise ultimate access of all humanity everywhere
to the total operative commonwealth of earth.
Utopia or Oblivion, 1969, Fuller
This now feasible, intercontinental
network would integrate America, Asia and Europe,
and integrate the night-and-day, spherically shadow-and-light
zones of Planet Earth. And this would occasion the
24-hour use of the now only fifty per cent of the
time used world-around standby generator capacity,
whose fifty per cent unused capacities heretofore
were mandatorily required only for peakload servicing
of local non-interconnected energy users. Such intercontinental
network integration would overnight double the already-installed
and in-use, electric power generating capacity of
our Planet.
Telegram to Senator Edmund Muskie, Earth, Inc.,
1973, Fuller.
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everyone involved.
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Two decades
ago, the late R. Buckminster Fuller
proposed interconnecting regional power
systems into a single continuous global electrical
energy grid. • While this vision is still years
away, tech-
nological advances have made the linking of
international and
inter regional energy networks practicable today.
• Transmission
lines allow utilities to level the peaks and
valleys of demand. This is
accomplished between East-West time zones, as
well as North-South
seasonal variations in demand. • The origin
of the energy grid initiative
emerged as the highest priority of the World
Game™. Its stated purpose
is “to make the world work for 100% of humanity
in the shortest possible
time through spontaneous cooperation without
ecological damage or the
disadvantage of anyone.” Research reveals that
these major benefits will
result from expanding electrical networks. •
Increase in everyone’s stan-
dard of living • Reduction of fossil fuel demand
and the resultant pollu-
tion • Relief of the population explosion •
Reduction of world hunger
• Enhancement of world trade • Promotion of
international
cooperation and peace • The purpose of GENI,
Global
Energy Network Institute, is to educate all
people,
especially world leaders, to the potential
benefits of this global
solution. •
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"Real wealth
is not gold. Real wealth is knowing what
to do with energy."
Buckminster Fuller
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