Shell Eco-marathon Americas: "Post COP15: The Road to Mexico" Big Think Panel Discussion

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The Shell Eco-marathon Americas, held in Houston March 26-28, 2010, was the perfect setting for discussions of the world's energy future. For many years Shell has challenged teams of young people from high schools and colleges to design, build, and test energy efficient vehicles and compete to see which team's vehicle can travel farthest on the least fuel. To Houston came teams from all over the U.S. and Canada—Shell also hosts Shell Eco-marathons in Europe and Asia—bringing solar cars, hydrogen-fueled cars, ethanol-fueled cars. (And, yes, some vehicles powered by gasoline.) It was a soap-Box Derby for geeks, with vehicles sleek and futuristic, boxy and plain, and altogether cool.

Beyond the Shell Eco-marathon there is another race going on—a race between the world's growing energy needs and the earth's carbon carrying capacity. That race involves technical challenges, trade-offs, and other issues that are infinitely more complex than the daunting challenge the students faced. To explore it, Shell and Big Think produced a series of panel discussions about the world's energy future.

This luncheon panel discussion, filmed and broadcast live online, focused on "Post-COP15: The Road to Mexico"and was moderated by Thomas A. Stewart, Chief Marketing & Knowledge Officer, Booz & Company, and featuring Vinod Khosla, Founding CEO, Sun Microsystems; Founder, Khosla Ventures, Marc Stuart, Co-Founder, EcoSecurities and Peter Voser, CEO, Royal Dutch Shell with comments from name Norberto Terrazas, Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the host country for the world's next big carbon/climate conference, coming after Copenhagen, in Cancun in November.

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