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New Energy Roundtable
Working together to design our region's economic development energy strategy through network building, collaboration and knowledge asset creation.
RAW POWER: Electrical discharges illuminate the surface of the Z machine, the world's most powerful X-ray source, during a recent accelerator shot. By early 1998, the Sandia National Laboratories accelerator had achieved temperatures of 1.8 million degrees, close to the 2 to 3 million degrees required for nuclear fusion. In the last 18 months, breakthroughs have enabled the machine to increase its power output roughly seven times. (Photo by Randy Montoya)
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Introduction:
The recently created New Energy Roundtable has identified five areas that connect Energy, Sustainability and Economic Development. The group hosted at Case’s Center for Regional Economic Issues is composed of scientists, entrepreneurs, energy specialists, economic development and community development professionals, and other individuals and organizations from across the region.
Click here to watch the forum at:
"Prelude to the New Energy Debate in NEO" featuring an inclusive representation of energy thought leaders in NEO.
Attach:PreludetotheNewEnergyDebate.ppt
The five areas identified to focus on initially are:
* network mapping of Northeast Ohio’s energy community
* transportation related opportunities
* stationary energy opportunities
* energy conservation
* the role of Northeast Ohio universities in advocacy, technology transfer, joint purchasing of New energy.
The debate is not so much about when or if the Hydrogen economy will materialize, as it is about what can we do today related to sustainably balancing energy supply and demand, and leveraging related Economic Development opportunities in our region.
The purpose of the Prelude to the debate (hosted at the 3-1 REI.Tuesday forum) is to discuss a framework for the debate and develop a base of understanding of the energy source categories, the relative time frames for new or cleaner sources of energy to reach commercialization and scale, and actionable opportunities.
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The webcast of June 2 NAE conference at Case,"Energy: A 21st Century Perspective," is available at http://www.energy05.org/webcast.html until at least August 31. The presenter power point presentations are available at: http://www.energy05.org
May 10, WVIV, Channel 25, 7:30PM Alan Alda & Stan Ovshinsky in Scientific American Frontiers - "Hydrogen Hopes"
05-31-05:Tuesdays @ REI forum'': "Sustainable Mobility, T- Zero: Meeting the Challenge Today"
05-10 & 11-05: Ohio Fuel Cell Symposium Cleveland State University.
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