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The future is wired...
The developedworld is being forced to re-think
its attitude to energy. We can’t claimwe weren’t
warned, but the impact always had to be to our
pockets before the question of sustainable
energy became real, and the rapid rise in oil
prices has provided the necessary catalyst.
I arrived in Pittsburgh, for the WAI Wire Expo,
in time to witness the outcry that US fuel
prices had achieved an all-time high average of
4 USD per gallon. I’d spent much of my flight
over catching up with the previous weekend’s
Sunday papers and, unsurprisingly, both
traditional and alternative fuels were high on
the editorial agenda.
No news here, I know, but walking to the
conference hall one morning I overheard a
member of the centre staff comment, “Wire
exhibition? Where’s the future in that?
Everything’s going wireless!” It had a ring of
truth about it and, still musing over a potential
energy crisis, it made me stop and think about
the future of wire.
Walking around the Wire Expo exhibition
hall, it didn’t take long to reach a reassuring
conclusion.
In whichever way energy is produced in
the future – and energy will continue to be
produced, one way or another, on a domestic
or global scale – something has to deliver that
energy safely, reliably and efficiently; the wire
and cable industry will continue to have an
obvious and essential contribution to make.
Of course the industry’s contribution needs
to extend to energy saving, and developing
environmentally safe processes; this is already
happening (take a look through the editorial
contributions in this issue) but we’ve an
industry with a bright, confident future.
If this seems complacent or naïve then I
apologise but, in a climate of change and
uncertainty, isn’t it nice to have some good
news for a change?
And that was before I considered tele-
communications, coat hangers, fencing,
springs, suspension bridges …
Gill Watson