Such a stimulus would even give us a cleaner environment, as gas is replacing dirtier coal and is most easily integrated with renewable technologies like wind and solar.

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But in the next decade, EDS hopes, it will win work ripping out old, rigid technology and replacing it with something more modern, flexible, easily linked and cheaper to run.

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The role of chairman, for example, could easily be hijacked by the powerful nations, potentially replacing a system imperfect with one that does much the same, only worse.

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