National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy PT 2

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/02/wired_for_progress.html National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), a longtime champion of building a clean energy economy and Former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, former U.S. Senator and United Nations Foundation President Timothy Wirth, business leader and clean energy advocate T. Boone Pickens and Center for American Progress Action Fund President John Podesta. The key theme of the forum: overcoming clean energy infrastructure challenges and reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil. The discussion will focus on guiding the transformation of our nation’s energy policies with particular attention on modernizing the electricity grid, integrating energy efficiency and distributed generation into its operation and regulation, rapidly increasing transmission capacity for renewable energy, and reducing our nation’s dependence on foreign oil through natural gas, plug-in hybrids, and batteries in the transportation and distribution system. The National Clean Energy Project builds on the August 2008 “National Clean Energy Summit” sponsored by Senator Reid, CAPAF, and the University of Nevada Las Vegas. The participants in the summit concluded that inadequate access to transmission was one of the most significant barriers to widespread development of renewable energy. The goal of this forum will be to discuss the best, most cost-effective options to “green the grid” and lay the groundwork for a broad national consensus between as many key stakeholders as possible on a clean energy agenda that will reduce emissions, increase reliability and affordability, and make us more secure and competitive. This important event will influence the development of a new and better national energy policy and should help speed its adoption. Among the list of confirmed participants in the roundtable are many top leaders in government, business, labor, and ...

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[miutube474]

I love the energy of this group. Steve Chu is very smart but I wonder if another important issue could have been brought up. We don't need a "smart grid" to make this model efficient and safe. We have natural gas lines already in place for most of the country and hydrogen can be converted then added to and taken from these pipelines both at point of use and point of origin at a fraction of the cost (and health cost) of a "smart" electrical grid. No one wants to live near high tension lines.

[cortho24]

This video is the future of this country, not because I think so but because so much money is going in to build it.

If you want to know what to invest yourself and your asset in. Here it is.

[carmenlee87]

Sounds like a sound long term Ivestment