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07/31/2008Future Power: Select Committee Gives Glimpse Into Energy World of Tomorrow. . .Today
Gore Initiative CEO, “Father of Plug-In Hybrids”, Clean Energy Technology Experts Lay Out Transition to Clean Energy Age
For decades, consumers have been teased with fantastical visions of the future. From the “kitchen of tomorrow” to flying cars, predicting the technological wonders ahead is as American as apple pie made by an automated oven. With gas prices soaring and climate concerns growing, America and the planet don’t have the option to keep the future of energy wrapped within magazine pages or celluloid reels. And the good news about clean energy is that the future is already here.
On Thursday, Chairman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming will peer into the possibilities of current technologies flourishing into a new clean energy age, and what America and the world must do to advance this era. The CEO of Vice President Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection will discuss his ambitious proposal to be carbon-free within a decade, and the “father of plug-in hybrids” and experts in superconductors and other important technologies will offer expertise on current and future technologies that can break our dependence on oil and other fossil fuels, create jobs, save money and save our planet from global warming.
WHAT: Select Committee hearing: “Renewing America’s Future: Energy Visions of Tomorrow, Today.”
OPENING STATEMENT: Chairman Edward J. Markey
WITNESSES:
Ms. Cathy Zoi, Chief Executive Officer, Alliance for Climate Protection
Dr. Andrew Frank, Professor, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, University of California at Davis
Gregory Yurek, Ph.D, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, American Superconductor Corporation
Aristides A. N. Patrinos, Ph.D, President, Synthetic Genomics
Steven Lockard, CEO, TPI Composites
WHEN: 1:30 PM, Thursday, July 31, 2008
WHERE: 2325 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
VIDEOS:
Chairman Markey's first Question and Answer period
Chairman Markey's Second Question and Answer period
PHOTOS:
Markey with Witnesses
Witnesses and Committee
Witnesses
Dr. Patrinos
Dr. Yurek
Ms. Zoi
Mr. Lockard
Markey with Witnesses
Dr. Frank and Dr. Patrinos
Markey
Markey
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