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So if you give undergraduates five dollars, it looks like coffee to them, and they run over to Starbucks and spend it as fast as they can.
People thought 20 dollars would be way better than five.
Go to the website and start yourself on the process of thinking less about "How can I spend money on myself?" and more about "If I've got five dollars or 15 dollars, what can I do to benefit other people?"
If you follow policy, you probably know that a few years ago the president pledged 15 billion dollars to fight the epidemic over five years, and a lot of that money is going to go to programs that try to replicate Uganda and use behavior change to encourage people and decrease the epidemic.
I'm going to tell you how to get the United States completely off oil and coal, five trillion dollars cheaper with no act of Congress led by business for profit.
Oil costs our economy two billion dollars a day, plus another four billion dollars a day in hidden economic and military costs, raising its total cost to over a sixth of GDP.
And combined with triple to quintuple efficiency airplanes, now on the drawing board, can save close to a trillion dollars.
Together, those things can give us the same or better access with 46 to 84 percent less driving, saving another 0.4 trillion dollars, plus 0.3 trillion dollars from using trucks more productively.
Over the next 40 years, buildings, which use three-quarters of the electricity, can triple or quadruple their energy productivity, saving 1.4 trillion dollars, net present value, with a 33 percent internal rate of return or in English, the savings are worth four times what they cost.
And then renovating smaller chillers instead of adding bigger ones saved 17 million dollars of capital cost, which helped pay for the other improvements and reduce the payback to just three years.
Dow's billion-dollar efficiency investment has already returned nine billion dollars.
But industry as a whole has another half-trillion dollars of energy still to save.
In 2010, renewables other than big hydro, particularly wind and solar cells, got 151 billion dollars of private investment, and they actually surpassed the total installed capacity of nuclear power in the world by adding 60 billion watts in that one year.
Now combine the electricity and oil revolutions, both driven by modern efficiency, and you get the really big story: reinventing fire, where business enabled and sped by smart policies in mindful markets can lead the United States completely off oil and coal by 2050, saving 5 trillion dollars, growing the economy 2.6-fold, strengthening out national security, oh, and by the way, by getting rid of the oil and coal, reducing the fossil carbon emissions by 82 to 86 percent.
The revenue of the top handful of companies in this space is over 39 billion dollars today.
He was taken to court, where a judge set 500 dollars bail.
Now imagine for just one moment that it's you stuck in that jail cell, and you don't have the 500 dollars to get out.
That's 40 million dollars a day.
And in doing all of that, we can leverage more than two billion dollars' worth of donated drugs.
And here the income per person in comparable dollars.
I think we can come up with the right technology solution, but we need to make a business out of it, and it'll cost the company about 10 billion dollars or more to deploy this system.
It would have been called something different, because Falcon 9 is nine Merlin engines, but instead of spending a billion dollars on a brand new engine, we put nine of them together on the back end of Falcon 9. Residual capability: glue three Falcon 9s together and you have the largest operational rocket flying.
So within 10 years, an economy price ticket, or, like, a couple thousand dollars per person to fly New York to Shanghai.
The societal cost of this condition is huge, in the US alone, maybe 35 to 80 billion dollars.
And those services can cost in excess of 60,000 to 80,000 dollars a year.
When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars on the seashores of Maine, because my parents told me it would bring me luck.
And my sand dollars had grown to the size of cities.
But the thing is that for every 15,000 dollars that we spend intervening in the lives of economically and otherwise disadvantaged kids in those earlier chapters, we save 80,000 dollars in crime-related costs down the road.
And then, when they had a final project, they actually went to Kickstarter and they were asking for 100,000 dollars to make a few of them to sell.
They got 10 million dollars.
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