Energy and Human Resource Development in Developing Countries Toward
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Towards Effective Localization William Hickey
Energy and Human Resource Development in Developing Countries
William Hickey
Energy and Human Resource Development in Developing Countries Towards Effective Localization
William Hickey Senior Consultant Toplis Energy (Toplis and Associates) Jakarta, Indonesia
ISBN 978-1-137-57630-9 ISBN 978-1-137-57082-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-57082-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016959273 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover illustration: © Jerónimo Alba / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Nature America Inc. New York
To AA, it’s his future...
With special thanks to Mr. William Hickey Sr. for financing this research
Preface
Big, Small, Far, and Near When one considers a picture of planet Earth taken 1 billion miles away from a NASA probe orbiting Saturn, it appears as a very tiny blue dot amid an oceanic abyss of blackness. That is it. That is the earth, where we all live. Nothing more, nothing less, pondering a tiny blue speck where humanity has lived, died, and aspired for the last 15,000 some odd years of its existence. It is finite, it is limited, it appears very much alone. When standing in the Australian Outback, hiking the high desert of southern Arizona, adrift in the straits of Cuba, or flying over the vast expanses of eastern Siberia, it would seem the boundaries of earth are unlimited, uninhabited, and with far more land or sea than anyone could possibly imagine. Wide-open terrain that needs to be filled with something, anything, yet very empty, very quiet, also very alone. One can fly the entire distance from New York to Los Angeles in less than five hours on a nonstop flight, a distance of well over 5000 kilometers, conversely, living in Sri Lanka, a small island nation the size of the US State of Vermont,
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