- -: Making Life Multiplanetary: Elon Musk's Goals for SpaceX
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/ideas_economy_innovation SpaceX founder Elon Musk outlines why he thinks investing in space exploration is important. He argues that he started the private space transport company not out of pessimism about the human race, but rather because h...
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- -: How a 'Feed-in Tariff' Could Revolutionize the Power Grid
July 26, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/chq_spies_technology_espionage R. James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA, discusses key methods for modernizing and improving America's energy grid. He explains that levying a "feed-in tariff" would allow individuals to sell energy from renewable s...
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- -: Solar Fuels: Beating Nature at Its Own Game
November 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/26/Reinventing_the_Leaf_Future_Sources_of_Fuel Dr. Nate Lewis, professor of chemistry at California Institute of Technology, discusses the potential of solar fuels to meet base load demand for the entire world. Lewis explains his work at the Joint Center...
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- -: Seeing Green in Iowa
April 24, 2009 (about 15 years ago)[We are experiencing audio sync issues on YouTube; this speech can be viewed properly at Vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/4314455] The President visits Trinity Structural Towers, the former Maytag plant which now houses a green manufacturing facility that produces towers for wind energy production, i...
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- -: The Promise of Clean Energy
May 27, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)President Obama speaks about how clean energy investments can diminish the environmental risks of continued use of fossil fuels and provide new jobs and opportunities after touring the Solyndra solar panel plant in Fremont, CA. May 26, 2010.
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- -: Weekly Address: A Solar Recovery
July 3, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)As part of the explosion of Recovery Act projects this summer and as a move towards a clean energy future, the President announces nearly $2 billion in conditional commitments to key solar companies.
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- -: Weekly Address: Solar Power & a Clean Energy Economy
October 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)The President points to a revolutionary new solar plant that will employ 1,000 people and power 140,000 homes. The plant is possible because of the President's investments in the clean energy economy, which Congressional Republicans want to eliminate.
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- -: Advise the Advisor: Secretary Steven Chu and Energy Policy
March 31, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Creating a Blueprint for Secure Energy Future for America is an important step towards increasing our energy production at home while decreasing our dependency on oil produced overseas. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and the Administration are asking for your feedback on how we can meet Presiden...
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- -: President Obama: Energy Innovation Vital for Rural Communities
August 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Discussion of homegrown fuels at the White House Rural Economic Summit. August 16, 2011.
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- -: Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement
October 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men -- many of them illiterate -- to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It's called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works. TEDTalk...
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