Warning on oil dependence

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A GLOBAL conference on renewable energy opened in Bonn today to warnings that dependence on oil had become a source of conflict as well as the carbon pollution that drives global warming.
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"There will never be a war to gain access to solar energy," she said. "Oil comes from a region that is particularly rich in conflicts, but renewables are everywhere."
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Trittin predicted that in 20 years, the market for solar power would be $US100 billion ($140 billion), "in other words as much as semi-conductors today".
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The United States, the world's biggest consumer of oil, has sent only a low-level delegation, comprising five people. The central African state of Burundi, in contrast, has sent 12.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9723166%5E1702,00.html