[P2P-F] [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: Update from the Office of Jeremy Rifkin

Wed Apr 8 22:43:57 CEST 2015

As an additional note on the topic I raised below, and after doing an
in-depth study of recent trends in renewables, I found out that
electricity from solar rooftops will/have become reach grid parity
and become the cheapest source (in currency per kWh terms) in this
decade. The Philippines reached grid parity in 2013, for instance, and
is already the cheapest source today (unless you count energy
efficiency as a source). For some countries this happened even earlier,
for other countries a bit later, but most certainly within this decade.
This is truly going to be a game changer, as it will also usher in a
subsequent era of *decreasing* electricity costs, following the
decreasing costs of solar panels. Solar rooftops show what Rifkin calls
"zero marginal cost", another term for the potential for abundance.

In the Philippine context, where the government has many coal plants in
the pipeline, decreasing solar costs will also be a deal-breaker. After
it passes grid parity, solar will become even cheaper in the future,
and those who invest in coal/nuclear today will be *locked-in* to
technologies that are not only pollutive but also very expensive, and
will probably have to be retired before their projected lifetime. But
this will invalidate all the financial calculations that justified these
projects in the first place. 

Since solar rooftos are a *distributed* form of generation, the whole
p2p concept applies! Of course, as on the Internet, the two major
trends, p2p and client-server, will continue to fight it out for
supremacy. and it is by no means certain which trend will become
dominant.

For details, please download my book referred to earlier.

Roberto Verzola

On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 04:14:29 +0800
Roberto Verzola <rverzola at gn.apc.org> wrote:

> On the grid as an Internet-like network, I discuss this in detail in
> one chapter of my book "Crossing Over: The Energy Transition to
> Renewable Electricity", which is focused on the Philippine context
> but may be useful to other energy campaigners too. The pdf of the
> book can be downloaded freely, just google "crossing over verzola".
> Check Chapter 19.
> 
> On another note, we are currently engaged in a campaign to
> intentionally flatten our grid's load curve during peak hours, in
> order to avoid rotating blackouts this summer. The key in this
> campaign is a real-time display of the load curve and the available
> supply, so that everyone can actually see the load curve about to
> cross the supply line. We need more than a million people to join in
> switching off non-essential loads when they see the load curve close
> to the supply line. We are using social media initially but we are
> also trying to draw in traditional media (for the continuous
> real-time display) and the government too.
> 
> May I ask interested colleagues for support on this matter? If the
> campaign is interesting to you. can you please blog or tweet
> (#NoBrownout) about it (google "Switch Off #NoBrownout campaign" for
> details) or put a brief item on your website?. We can then cite this
> as international interest in our campaign which would further fuel
> local interest about it.
> 
> Greetings to all,
> 
> Roberto Verzola
> Philippines
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 19:04:26 +0100
> Anna Harris <anna at shsh.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > books, Third Industrial Revolution and  Zero Marginal Cost, which is
> > on the p2p list as recommended reading. Listening to his talks is
> > not enough. There he deals only with the economic issues. But his
> > belief that when people own and produce their own renewable power,
> > which they can freely exchange on a grid similar to the Internet,
> > without going through some central monopoly, that this will
> > fundamentally change social relationships and our relationship to
> > the biosphere, is very convincing. However he is not optimistic
> > that we will take this route. Too much weighed against it. But
> > there are places where it is beginning to happen. 
> > 
> > Anna
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 8 Apr 2015, at 17:42, Orsan Senalp <orsan1234 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Anna, what would be your comment on such cooperation or servicing of
> > Rifkin to Chinese and German rulers, or may be more interesting
> > question and to turn it around, of their interest in ending
> > capitalism? I really like to hear an open discussion, here or
> > wherever so would appreciate if you could share your opinion
> > wheatear in the direction suggest on any other aspect of the info
> > on the link you shared!
> > 
> > 
> > > On 08 Apr 2015, at 18:24, Anna Harris <anna at shsh.co.uk> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I consider both these comments unnecessarily negative.
> > > Disagreement is one thing, which I hope is welcomed as inevitable
> > > where diversity exists. But those deprecating remarks are
> > > intended to wound. They do not offer any grounds for open
> > > discussion. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 8 Apr 2015, at 16:50, Bob Haugen <bob.haugen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Actually, I thought it was interesting where he was going with his
> > > schtick. I had not kept up. Rifkin and Merkel! What a couple!
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 10:46 AM, peter waterman
> > > <peterwaterman1936 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Hi, Anna,
> > >> 
> > >> I would have thought he was really on top of his self-publicity
> > >> operation and needed little extra from you.
> > >> 
> > >> Best,
> > >> 
> > >> P
> > >> 
> > >> 2014. From Coldwar Communism to the Global Justice Movement:
> > >> Itinerary of a Long-Distance Internationalist.
> > >> http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/from_coldwar_communism
> > >> _to_the_global_emancipatory_movement/ (Free).
> > >> 2014. Interface Journal Special (Co-Editor), December 2014.
> > >> 'Social Movement Internationalisms'. (Free).
> > >> 2014. 'The Networked Internationalism of Labour's Others', in Jai
> > >> Sen (ed), Peter Waterman (co-ed), The Movement of Movements:
> > >> Struggles for Other Worlds  (Part I). (10 Euros).
> > >> 2012. EBook: Recovering Internationalism.  [A compilation of
> > >> papers from the new millenium. Now free in two download formats]
> > >> 2013. EBook (co-editor), February 2013: World Social Forum:
> > >> Critical Explorations
> > >> http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/world_social_forum/ 2012.
> > >> Interface Journal Special (co-editor), November 2012: For the
> > >> Global Emancipation of Labour 2005-? Ongoing. Blog:
> > >> http://www.unionbook.org/profile/peterwaterman.???. Needed: a
> > >> Global Labour Charter Movement (2005-Now!) 2011. Under, Against,
> > >> Beyond: Labour and Social Movements Confront a Globalised,
> > >> Informatised Capitalism (2011) (c. 1,000 pages of Working Papers,
> > >> free, from the 1980's-90's).
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Anna Harris <anna at shsh.co.uk>
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?ca=588d35ee-35b3-44c4-8535-d4747f9b84f0&c=91e9ad10-aa46-11e3-9e40-d4ae52753a3b&ch=92cd7d60-aa46-11e3-9eb5-d4ae52753a3b
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> From: Office of Jeremy Rifkin <ojr at foet.org>
> > >>> Date: 8 April 2015 06:05:23 BST
> > >>> To: anna at shsh.co.uk
> > >>> Subject: Update from the Office of Jeremy Rifkin
> > >>> Reply-To: ojr at foet.org
> > >>> 
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> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> "Art and The End of Capitalism"
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> "Jeremy Rifkin has diagnosed the beginning of the end of the
> > >>> capitalist era, and artists are part of the prescription for a
> > >>> healthy, collaborative future"
> > >>> 
> > >>> Click here to see the full article from
> > >>> 
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> > >>> SEE JEREMY RIFKIN'S BIOGRAPHY HERE
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> Jeremy Rifkin Presents the Keynote Address at the European
> > >>> Investment Bank's "Momentum For Europe - Innovation and
> > >>> Competitiveness" Event On March 2nd, 2015 Jeremy Rifkin joined
> > >>> Angela Merkel, The Chancellor of Germany, Jean-Claude Juncker,
> > >>> The President of the European Commission, and Werner Hoyer, The
> > >>> President of the European Investment Bank, in Berlin, Germany to
> > >>> deliver the opening keynote address at the European Investment
> > >>> Bank conference on "Momentum for Europe-Innovation and
> > >>> Competitiveness". Mr. Rifkin presented a bold new plan for the
> > >>> next stage of the European journey: The build-out and scale-up
> > >>> of an Internet of Things infrastructure for a Digital Europe
> > >>> and the transition to a Third Industrial Revolution.
> > >>> 
> > >>> Mr. Rifkin argued that the Digital Europe transition will
> > >>> revolutionize every commercial sector, disrupt the workings of
> > >>> virtually every industry, bring with it unprecedented new
> > >>> economic opportunities, put millions of people back to work, and
> > >>> create a more sustainable post-carbon society to mitigate
> > >>> climate change.
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> Click Here To See Mr. Rifkin's Interview with EurActiv.com
> > >>> 
> > >>> China's New Richest Man Says His Success is Inspired by Jeremy
> > >>> Rifkin's Vision of a Third Industrial Revolution
> > >>> 
> > >>> In his new book, China's New Energy Revolution, Li Hejun, now
> > >>> China's richest man, says he was "deeply moved [by the] powerful
> > >>> set of coordinates" that Jeremy Rifkin lays out in his book, The
> > >>> Third Industrial Revolution, regarding the conceptualization and
> > >>> deployment of a digitalized Third Industrial Revolution
> > >>> infrastructure. In the preface to his book, Li Hejun writes "I
> > >>> was deeply moved by the author's insights. Reflecting upon my
> > >>> experience working in the new energy sector in the past 20
> > >>> years, and especially in the PV industry in recent years, I
> > >>> found Rifkin's thesis very convincing." Li Hejun's company,
> > >>> Hanergy, is a leading thin-film solar power company in the
> > >>> world. Hejun envisions the installation of solar and other
> > >>> renewable energies in every community, allowing millions of
> > >>> people and thousands of businesses to produce their own energy
> > >>> and share surpluses with others on a digitalized Energy
> > >>> Internet stretching across China. Hejun's mission is to
> > >>> transform China into a sustainable post-carbon Third Industrial
> > >>> Revolution economy powered by renewable energies.
> > >>> 
> > >>> Mr. Rifkin's Third Industrial Revolution vision has also been
> > >>> embraced by the new Chinese leadership. In December 2011,
> > >>> Premier Li Keqiang announced that he had read Mr. Rifkin's Third
> > >>> Industrial Revolution book with great interest and had asked the
> > >>> appropriate government agencies to pay close attention to the
> > >>> central themes in preparing China's plan to usher-in an
> > >>> ecological civilization. Vice Premier Wang Yang has also
> > >>> endorsed Mr. Rifkin's Third Industrial Revolution economic
> > >>> development model.
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> Click Here to View the Press Release from Bloomberg Business
> > >>> 
> > >>> Thanks to all of you for your continued support!  If you should
> > >>> have any suggestions or concerns, please do not hesitate to let
> > >>> me know.
> > >>> 
> > >>> We look forward to hearing from you soon!
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> Sincerely,
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> Shawn Moorhead
> > >>> 
> > >>> Chief of Staff
> > >>> 
> > >>> Office of Jeremy Rifkin
> > >>> 
> > >>> shawn at foet.org
> > >>> 
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