« Live Ink | Main | Last notes on the Clean Energy Summit » Clean Tech Summit - loose notesI spent some time today at the Clean Energy Venture Summit here in Austin (where Bruce will be empaneled tomorrow 'round noon), and I'm working on a post for Worldchanging about one session, on Utility of the Future (or electric grid of the future - smart energy). Luncheon keynote Dick Gephardt repeated one of his mantras, "Politics is a substitute for violence." He and Jim Woolsey, tag-teaming the keynote, had much to say about the relationship of energy to terrorism; Woolsey says we should remember, as we stand pumping gasoline, to look in the rearview mirror to see who's funding terrorists (i.e. we are, buy buying gasoline). The less we buy oil, he was saying, the less we empower terrorists to blow things up. Gephardt, when asked in q&a about the proposed plan to reduce the gas tax in Texas over the summer, said it was "pretty much lunacy" because we want to discourage gasoline consumption, not, pardon the pun, pump it up. The talks at the conference were information-intense, and I need time to sort out my notes and post more (partly because I can barely read 'em - I was showing off my tiny scrawl and the conference, proud that I could pack so much info into a page, not quite getting that it's only information if it's readable). I was called away to a meeting in the middle of a good talk about clean transportation; hope that's recorded somewhere. I'll be back at the conference tomorrow, late, but in time to see Bruce's session on "science vs science fiction of cleantech." It's a conversation including Matthew Nordan (though I'm not sure why Nordan's there, we thought it was going to be a solo. Maybe his focus on nano is the key.) jon posted this at 7:52 PM |
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