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    <p><font size="+1">That's an interesting list with lots of languages
        represented.  If the list is rearranged to GDP by language,
        though, it appears that just four language families dominate the
        world economy.  The Teutonic family, the Latinate family, the
        Sinitic family, and Japanese dominate well over 80 percent of
        the world's gross domestic product production.  English, at
        about 35 percent, exceeds its next nearest language competitor,
        Japanese, by 25 percent of world GDP, and the Latinate languages
        together produce about 18 percent of the world's output. 
        Economic freedom, GDP production, and language spoken are separate
        concepts, of course, but their interactions are interesting. 
        Google gdp by language for links to more detailed lists.</font></p>
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    <p><font size="+1">Ken</font></p>
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    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/4/2016 10:11 PM, Ron Force wrote:<br>
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        <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Mr Crabtree--
          the Heritage Foundation ranks Chile 7th in the world for
          economic freedom (2016). The US is ranked 11th.</div>
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            href="http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking">http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking</a><br>
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            <div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Ron Force<br>
                Moscow Idaho USA</font></div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 8:11 PM, g
          crabtree <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:direoutcome@gmail.com" target="_blank">direoutcome@gmail.com</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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            <div dir="ltr">Golly, and premium gasoline is practically
              free in Venezuela. (under a nickel a gallon) Once Chile's
              new socialist president has had a few years to enact her
              progressive policies, the people of South Americas most
              stable and prosperous nation might be lucky enough to
              partake of the pleasures the Venezuelan populace is
              becoming accustomed to. (toilet paper and food are rather
              bourgeoisie after all) 
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              <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 12:43 PM,
                Nicholas Gier <span dir="ltr"><<a
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                    href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com">ngier006@gmail.com</a></a>></span>
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                      <h1><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Here is
                          what Latin America' Best Socialist Government
                          is Doing. nfg</font></h1>
                      <h1><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Chile
                          Producing So Much Solar Energy It’s Giving
                          Electricity Away for Free</font></h1>
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                        <div><font face="georgia, serif">By <a
                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://www.nationofchange.org/news/author/lorraine-chow/"
                              target="_blank">Lorraine Chow</a></font></div>
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                        <div><font face="georgia, serif"><a
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                              target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/06/03/chile-producing-much-solar-energy-giving-electricity-away-free/">http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/06/03/chile-producing-much-solar-energy-giving-electricity-away-free/</a></a></font></div>
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                        <p><font face="georgia, serif">Thanks to Chile’s
                            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://ecowatch.com/2016/05/31/santiago-metro-system-solar-wind/"
                              target="_blank">major investments</a> in <a
                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://ecowatch.com/business/renewables/"
                              target="_blank">renewables</a>, the Latin
                            American country is seeing an incredible <a
                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=solar"
                              target="_blank">solar</a> boom.</font></p>
                        <p><font face="georgia, serif">In a
                            new Bloomberg <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-01/chile-has-so-much-solar-energy-it-s-giving-it-away-for-free"
                              target="_blank">report</a>, <em>Chile Has
                              So Much Solar Energy It’s Giving It Away
                              for Free</em>, solar capacity from the
                            country’s central grid has increased four
                            fold to 770 megawatts since 2013.
                            Another 1.4 gigawatts will be added this
                            year with many solar power projects <a
                              moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-10/acciona-invests-343-million-in-247-megawatt-solar-farm-in-chile"
                              target="_blank">under development</a>.</font></p>
                        <p><font face="georgia, serif">Thanks to
                            an economic boost from increased mining
                            production, Chile now has 29 solar farms
                            and another 15 in the pipeline. Enel Green
                            Power Chile Ltda. recently commissioned <a
                              moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://cleantechnica.com/2016/06/01/enel-commissions-largest-pv-solar-project-chile/"
                              target="_blank">Chile’s largest solar PV
                              project</a> connected to the grid. The
                            160-megawatt facility will be located in the
                            northern part of the country in the
                            municipality of María Elena, about 1,300
                            kilometers north of Santiago.</font></p>
                        <p><font face="georgia, serif">With so much
                            clean power available, the price of solar
                            has cost absolutely nothing for
                            certain regions in recent months. As
                            Bloomberg stated:</font></p>
                        <p><font face="georgia, serif">Spot prices
                            reached zero in parts of the country on 113
                            days through April, a number that’s on track
                            to beat last year’s total of 192 days,
                            according to Chile’s central grid operator.</font></p>
                        <p><font face="georgia, serif">However, the
                            article points out that Chile’s rapid solar
                            expansion isn’t all good news. Due to the
                            nation’s bifurcated power grid, the central
                            and northern grids are not connected.</font></p>
                        <p><font face="georgia, serif"><a
                              moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://analysis.pv-insider.com/chiles-solar-boom-poses-new-integration-challenges-developers"
                              target="_blank">PV Insider</a> noted that
                            most of the demand is in the central grid,
                            yet the best solar resource in the country
                            resides in the Atacama desert in the
                            north. The northern grid represents
                            approximately 24 percent of installed
                            capacity whereas the central grid holds the
                            majority of capacity at 74 percent of
                            installed megawatts.</font></p>
                        <p><font face="georgia, serif">The northern grid
                            is where solar prices are going to zero,
                            Bloomberg noted. Meanwhile, the main
                            population centers in the south are not
                            seeing the same benefits.</font></p>
                        <p><font face="georgia, serif">Chile, therefore,
                            must invest in its transmission
                            infrastructure in order for the whole
                            country to tap into the north’s glut solar
                            power and stabilize demand.</font></p>
                        <p><font face="georgia, serif">“Chile has at
                            least seven or eight points in the
                            transmission lines that are collapsed and
                            blocked, and we have an enormous challenge
                            to bypass the choke points,” Energy Minister
                            Maximo Pacheco told the publication. “When
                            you embark on a path of growth and
                            development like the one we’ve had, you
                            obviously can see issues arising.”</font></p>
                        <p><font face="georgia, serif">The good news is
                            that the Chilean government is addressing
                            the problem with its planned 1,865-mile
                            transmission line that will link the
                            two grids by 2017.</font></p>
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                          <h1><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Santiago’s
                              Metro System to Become World’s First to Be
                              Powered Largely by Solar and Wind</font></h1>
                          <div><font face="georgia, serif"><a
                                moz-do-not-send="true"
                                href="https://ecowatch.com/2016/05/31/santiago-metro-system-solar-wind/"
                                target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ecowatch.com/2016/05/31/santiago-metro-system-solar-wind/">https://ecowatch.com/2016/05/31/santiago-metro-system-solar-wind/</a></a></font></div>
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                            </font></div>
                          <div><font face="georgia, serif">The subway
                              system in Chile’s capital will soon be the
                              world’s first to run largely on <a
                                moz-do-not-send="true"
                                href="http://ecowatch.com/business/renewables/"
                                target="_blank">renewable energy</a>
                              sources.<br>
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                          <p><font face="georgia, serif">The <a
                                moz-do-not-send="true"
                                href="http://www.metrosantiago.cl/"
                                target="_blank">Metro de Santiago</a>,
                              the second-longest metro system in Latin
                              America after Mexico City, has signed two
                              agreements, one with a <a
                                moz-do-not-send="true"
                                href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=solar"
                                target="_blank">solar</a> energy
                              provider and another with a <a
                                moz-do-not-send="true"
                                href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=solar"
                                target="_blank">wind</a> power company,
                              which will provide 60 percent of metro’s
                              energy needs by 2018.</font></p>
                          <p><font face="georgia, serif">An announcement
                              of the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.energias-renovables.com/articulo/santiago-energia-renovable-para-el-ferrocarril-metropolitano-20160523"
                                target="_blank">$500 million deal</a>
                              was made last week by Chilean President
                              Michelle Bachelet during a visit to the
                              National Stadium station that’s currently
                              under construction.</font></p>
                          <p><font face="georgia, serif">“More than two
                              and a half million passengers use the
                              Metro daily,” she <a
                                moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://geographical.co.uk/places/cities/item/1707-santiago-transport-turning-renewable"
                                target="_blank">said</a>. “[They] will
                              not only be able to travel faster and
                              safer; they will also be able to travel in
                              a means of transport that cares for the
                              planet, which reduces our carbon footprint
                              and that makes possible a sustainable
                              future for all.”</font></p>
                          <p><font face="georgia, serif">California
                              solar company SunPower, an affiliate of
                              French oil company Total, will begin
                              construction of the El Pelícano Solar
                              Project, a 100-megawatt facility near the
                              municipalities of La Higuera and Vallenar.
                              The solar plant, expected to go live by
                              the end of 2017, will supply 300 gigawatt
                              hours per year of clean energy to Metro de
                              Santiago, or 42 percent of its annual
                              energy demands.</font></p>
                          <p><font face="georgia, serif">“SunPower is
                              proud to serve Metro of Santiago’s growing
                              energy demand with cost-competitive,
                              renewable solar power,” Eduardo Medina,
                              the executive vice president of SunPower’s
                              global power plants, <a
                                moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://newsroom.sunpower.com/2016-05-23-The-Worlds-First-Metro-to-Run-on-Solar-Energy-Powered-by-Total-and-SunPower"
                                target="_blank">said</a>. “Solar is an
                              ideal energy source for Chile because of
                              the country’s high solar resource and
                              transparent energy policies. In
                              partnership with Total, SunPower is
                              committed to the continued growth of our
                              business in Chile.”</font></p>
                          <p><font face="georgia, serif">As for wind
                              power, the metro will receive 18 percent
                              of its energy needs from a 185-megawatt <a
                                moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.power-technology.com/news/newsvestas-to-deliver-wind-turbines-for-185mw-san-juan-project-in-chile-4611515"
                                target="_blank">San Juan wind project</a>
                              developed by Spain-based Elecnor and owned
                              by Brazilian renewable energy firm Latin
                              America Power, according to <a
                                moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://qz.com/691078/santiagos-subway-system-will-soon-be-powered-mostly-by-solar-and-wind-energy/"
                                target="_blank">Quartz</a>.</font></p>
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                          <p><font face="georgia, serif">Quartz noted
                              that both solar and wind projects will
                              start service in 2018 and supply the metro
                              for the next 15 years. The metro will
                              receive its remaining 40 percent of its
                              energy needs from the Chilean electric
                              distribution company Chilectra.</font></p>
                          <p><font face="georgia, serif">The <a
                                moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nrdc.org/experts/maria-martinez/latin-america-green-news-climate-change-threatens-cabo-pulmos-corals"
                                target="_blank">Natural Resources
                                Defense Council noted</a> that the
                              amount of energy generated by the wind and
                              solar projects for the metro will be
                              equivalent to the energy needs of 104,000
                              homes. Not only that, the impressive
                              initiative is expected to mitigate 130,000
                              tons of CO2 emissions annually.</font></p>
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                                            <div><font face="georgia,
                                                serif">A society grows
                                                great when old men plant
                                                trees whose shade they
                                                know they shall never
                                                sit in. <br>
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                                                serif"><br>
                                                “Enlightenment is man’s
                                                emergence from his
                                                self-imposed immaturity.
                                                Immaturity is the
                                                inability to use one’s
                                                understanding without
                                                guidance from another.
                                                This immaturity is self-
                                                imposed when its cause
                                                lies not in lack of
                                                understanding, but in
                                                lack of resolve and
                                                courage to use it
                                                without guidance from
                                                another. Sapere Aude!
                                                ‘Have courage to use
                                                your own
                                                understand-ing!—that is
                                                the motto of
                                                enlightenment.<br>
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                                                --Immanuel Kant<br>
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 List services made available by First Step Internet,
 serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.
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          <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a>
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