National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy PT 1

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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[louielamson2000]

American Energy Independence can save the worldAmerica, Dont Go Back to Sleep

How much percent of energy come from Sunlight, Wind, and Ocean Waves on our Earth? That energy can help todays world to reduce global warming, and air pollution. Because of todays world, we use large amounts of burned oil + gas and coalmines for economic expansion in to the world? If we have all this energy coming from the sun, wind, and ocean waves, then why cant we use that to our advantage?

[louielamson2000]

Will American people continue dependence on foreign oil? If so, I believe American Energy Downturn will be not fixing. Without Energy Independence, Americans will not have future economy goals. Neither for short term or long term Will Americans people, Congress, and new President-Elect work with T Boone Pickens Plan to fix this problem?

Its never too late to learn, or to fix a problem. Its only too late when you do nothing, or ignore the problem...

[MOLIFE134]

im real proud