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to earn money?” After deathly silence from the public, van der Veer
added: “Shell has been active in energy business for 100 years now.
If we want to earn money for another 100 years, which we want, we
have to shift to solar energy; because as you all know, oil reserves
will not last that long.”
44.4.5.6 Lord Norman Foster on the 15th Swiss Solar Prize 2005
In 2005, Lord Norman Foster gave the following celebratory speech
for the 15th anniversary of the Swiss Solar Prize in the Federal
Institute of Technology in Lausanne: “The Swiss Solar Prize is truly
unique. It is an indication of the unremitting