For local New Yorkers - I am giving an Energy talk this Saturday (Feb. 16th)


For those readers who are in the New York area, I will be giving a talk on the future of energy this coming Saturday (February 16th)

The ‘Futures Salon’ Meetup(.com) is the local chapter of Futures Salons sponsored by John Smart and the Accelerating Foundation Studies.

Saturday, February 16, 2008 at 3:00 PM

Stone Creek Bar
140 E. 27th Street New York , NY 10016

Details: http://future.meetup.com/49/calendar/7030141/

My presentation will look at the future of energy by focusing on the challenges of global dynamics of demand, and plausible breakthroughs and market-based strategies which could lead to a century of energy abundance.

This presentation will apply futures studies concepts to the greening of hydrocarbons, the dawn of bio-energy, wheel based electric motors and the automobile industry, and the idea of ‘Personal Energy’ packets to bring the world online into the electricity age via H2 fuel cells.

[This not a talk to make you depressed about climate change; nor is about bashing oil/coal industries. We’ll be forward looking and energy agnostic!]

It is a small group gathering of talented minds. You should join us!

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Also, a good friend and colleague from Austin, Texas - Joel Greenberg [formerly of GSD&M; Electric Sheep Company(vitual worlds)] is launching a new career around cleantech and the energy industry.

Last week, his blog ‘Unmassed‘ looked at the transportation industry - pros and cons of Plug-in Hybrids, H2 fuel cells, and challenges of India/China’s auto market.

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Mark Adam
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February 12, 2008 at 5:20 pm

Sir, you are in NYC I think. Have you ever looked at the possibility of Quebec(the part of Canada directly north of you)becoming NY’s source of clean Hydrogen. I’ll let you crunch numbers(all available at Hydro Quebec’s website) but I think NY has a cheap, clean source of H. Someone just has to convince them to get into the biz. How ’bout you?

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Leslie Erganian
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February 13, 2008 at 3:58 pm

Just happened upon your site and had a story that speaks to your title Dark Enough to See the Stars. I live in Santa Clara, California, just across the Guadelupe River from San Jose. Besides the outcropping of Cisco buildings that lie low and green topped across the river, the other distinguishing feature to San Jose is that the entire city uses yellow street lights. I thought it odd and vaguely creepy when I first moved here. After a trip up the hill to the Lick Mill observatory, one of the 10 best observatories in the US, I began to think differently, you see the astronomers up there encouraged the city to go yellow and in so doing go green (sulfer bulbs require less energy) and to go dark (the observatory can filter out a single colored light source, but cannot filter out a wide spectrum bulb) therefore allowing the skies above San Jose (with a filter at least) to remain dark enough to see the stars.