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If energy were free, what would we do differently?

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Question added by Abdul Rehman Zaheer , Marketing & Projects Specialist , King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Date Posted: 2014/05/04
Daranivasan Anandaraman
by Daranivasan Anandaraman , Business Analyst , ADP

Will replace vehicles with electric vehicles. 

Abdel Fattah Ibrahim
by Abdel Fattah Ibrahim , CDT Director , Colgate Palmolive

Clean, sustainable, and abundant energy - empowering human beings from the

most modern of cities to the most remote villages on Earth. A tremendous amount

of human energy that is expended merely to find water or firewood would be

unleashed; perhaps allowing for the explosion of widespread education around

the globe. This dynamic alone could lead to a significant shift in human society as

it has been repeatedly shown the hugely positive effects of educational access

 

 

 

Ramendra Sunder Sinha PMP
by Ramendra Sunder Sinha PMP , DGM Planning , Gaur Sons Limited

Energy (Fuels), Power etc. like other natural resources including water requires costs to extract, produce and supply to the end-user. Even if the end-user gets it for free, someone else like the Govt or State has to pay for the cost and then recover the same costs indirectly by way of Cross Subsidies, Duties & Taxes. This may result in protests and violent actions by the citizens of the country against the Govt. or State.

 

Anything to the end-user or consumer which is free of cost is most likely to be wasted, misused and abused. As this is non-sustainable, the Govt or State may be forced to withdraw from providing free Energy and this again may result in protests and violent actions by the citizens of the country against the Govt. or State

Hence what we do differently is wastage, blackmarketing, protests & violence.

Ahmed Qurashi
by Ahmed Qurashi , Project Manager , NT Contracting and Maintenance

Basically Energy is Free, extraction/ Generation is not free... like gold.

and if it get free then its value will fall

zafar abbas minhas
by zafar abbas minhas , Freelance Writer , DAILY MASHRAQ

pakistan has serious energy crises,,,, i will sleep in my AC room till2015 if its free.

Khatim Abbas Seed
by Khatim Abbas Seed , BUSINESS CONSULTANT , Google

Most of energy IS free, but can't be "owned" easily so it's not interesting enough (yet). What if "owned" (fossil) energy became free? Almost ANY and EVERYTHING in modern society will change, including our own behaviour (and I don't only mean our queuing behaviour at benzine stations!).

Sidrah Nadeem
by Sidrah Nadeem , Global Marketing Manager , Hill+Knowlton Strategies

90% of us would consume more than required.

Ajikumar Gopinathan Nair
by Ajikumar Gopinathan Nair , Technical Consultant in Clean Kerala Co Ltd , Clean Keral Company Ltd

Energy per se is available free in this universe in different forms. But the human demand is energy at his fingertips for his specific comfort for which call for application of technology. It is here that we Engineers Win our bread. 

Nila Eslit
by Nila Eslit , Content Writer for Fitness web , George Allen

Are you referring to fossil fuels?  If you do, then I still would conserve it because its resource is not infinite. Sooner or later it would become depleted.  

Actually, it's not wise to waste anything we have.  Even if you insist that you are living in a developed nation and everything seems accessible and abundant, it is not reason enough to be indiscriminate about our natural resources.  We are not the only generation living in this planet.  What about your children's children and the generations after them? 

IRPHAN GHANI
by IRPHAN GHANI , Senior Management , A

SAVE ENERGY

Mohammad Tohamy Hussein Hussein
by Mohammad Tohamy Hussein Hussein , Chief Executive Officer & ERP Architect , Egyptian Software Group

We will redirect today's energy costs to further development. I expect also that some people may abuse energy.

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