The lead negotiator as he cautioned because their stark message to the insurgents to John Nickelson has made clear, reconcile or die. Ruben said this is not the way to start a dialogue with people whos entire culture is organized around personal and collective honor, which by the way is a much bigger factor in this war than socalled extremist islam. He added its obvious that this conflict has no purely military solution, even maintaining the current Military Involvement requires better political ties with afghanistans neighbors. Look at a map, ruben said, afghanistan is land locked and America Needs supply roots. The three countries that could help with access are pakistan, russia and iran. And we have bad relations with all three. Rubens chief advice is to work hard at diplomacy and recognize other countries have an interest in afghanistan and engage them, a successful outcome is entirely
dependent upon involvement from india, pakistan and russia and iran. So washington cannot keep fa
unless you have storage which is the next phase of the energy revolution. in taming the sun, a fascinating new book that tackles these issues, the author reveals a startling statistic. if the united states turned off all of its sources of electricity immediately, it currently has enough storage capacity to power the country for just 43 minutes. so storage has a long way to go but many smart people have very big ideas for what to do about it. last year elon musk made the worth s largest lithium eye on battery from a sprawling wind farm in australia. resulting in outages in a fraction of second and store up to 129 mega watt hours of wind energy. that is still a drop in the bucket of country s demand but it s a start. here s another wild idea, solar fuels.