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“So how would you run a whole country without oil? That was the question that sort of hit me in the middle of a Davos afternoon about 4 years ago and it never left my brain, and I started playing with it more like a puzzle. The original thought I had… this must be ethanol so I went out and researched ethanol and found out that you need the amazon in your backyard in every country. About 6 months later I figured out it must be Hydrogen, until some scientists told me the unfortunate truth which is you use more clean electrons… if you use hydrogen so that’s not going to be the path to go… and then sort of through a process of wandering around I got to a thought that actually if you could convert an entire country to electric cars in a way that convenient and affordable you could get to a solution. Now I started from a point of view that it has to be some that scales en masse - how do you do this so that it scales to 99% of the population. The thought that came to mind is that it needs to be as good as any car that you would have today… so 1) it has to be more convenient than a car and 2) it has to be more affordable than today’s cars. And affordable is not a 40 thousand dollar sedan - right - that’s not something that we can buy or finance today and convenient is not something you can drive for an hour and charge for eight. So we are bound the laws of physics and the laws of economics. So how do we do this still within the boundary with the science we know today… how do we do it within economics today, how do we do it from the power of the consumer up and not from the power of an edict down. And on a random visit to Telsa on some afternoon, I actually found out that the answer comes from separating from the car ownership and the battery ownership…. This is the classic “batteries not included”…


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Jonathan Harris wants to make sense of the emotional world of the Web. With deep compassion for the human condition, his projects troll the Internet to find out what we’re all feeling and looking for.

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“So how would you run a whole country without oil? That was the question that sort of hit me in the middle of a Davos afternoon about 4 years ago and it never left my brain, and I started playing with it more like a puzzle. The original thought I had… this must be ethanol so I went out and researched ethanol and found out that you need the amazon in your backyard in every country. About 6 months later I figured out it must be Hydrogen, until some scientists told me the unfortunate truth which is you use more clean electrons… if you use hydrogen so that’s not going to be the path to go… and then sort of through a process of wandering around I got to a thought that actually if you could convert an entire country to electric cars in a way that convenient and affordable you could get to a solution. Now I started from a point of view that it has to be some that scales en masse - how do you do this so that it scales to 99% of the population. The thought that came to mind is that it needs to be as good as any car that you would have today… so 1) it has to be more convenient than a car and 2) it has to be more affordable than today’s cars. And affordable is not a 40 thousand dollar sedan - right - that’s not something that we can buy or finance today and convenient is not something you can drive for an hour and charge for eight. So we are bound the laws of physics and the laws of economics. So how do we do this still within the boundary with the science we know today… how do we do it within economics today, how do we do it from the power of the consumer up and not from the power of an edict down. And on a random visit to Telsa on some afternoon, I actually found out that the answer comes from separating from the car ownership and the battery ownership…. This is the classic “batteries not included”…


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New Matt Harding Video on youtube
Sunday, June 22, 2008
My score/song for Matt Harding’s latest video is now up on youtube and Vimeo and has received over seven million views so far (first three weeks). For those interested here’s the link and my album notes that was not published with the song on Amazonmp3.com.
Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001B8R3MS/
Album notes “Praan”
Credits:
Music By Garry Schyman
Drums and Engineering Dan Blessinger
Vocals Palbasha Siddique
Guitars and bass Kevin Dukes
Concertmaster Belinda Broughton
Orchestral contractor Ross DeRoche (DeRoche Music Inc.)
Vocal Contractor Melissa Nixon
Lyrics adapted from the poem “Stream Of Life” from Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
This song is my fourth collaboration with Matt Harding. How we met and got started working together is an interesting story in itself, without detailing it here I will just say it is one of those serendipitous events that can play a big part in ones life.
I wrote this music without particular lyrics in mind because, for one thing, I don”t really write lyrics. Matt would send me early edits of the video which I used to inspire me as I composed. I used my film and television experience to build the song in the appropriate places.
When it came time for lyrics and to find a singer Matt suggested that we consider non-English lyrics, which instantly sounded right to me. I immediately thought of Rabindranath Tagore who is considered the poet laureate of India. He was given the Nobel Prize in literature in 1913 for his English translation of his book of poetry entitled Gitanjali and was the first non-westerner to win the prize.
Matt was particularly fond of the poem “Stream Of Life” which seemed perfectly in tune with his video.
Bengali is a beautiful language so we decided to h...

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All the presentation really is, is the ability to have someone else grasp what we see in here, in our own minds, in there, in their minds. And to do that sometimes things like spreadsheets and powerpoints just get in the way and the back of a napkin really is all that we need.

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All the presentation really is, is the ability to have someone else grasp what we see in here, in our own minds, in there, in their minds. And to do that sometimes things like spreadsheets and powerpoints just get in the way and the back of a napkin really is all that we need.

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