Energy Policy Solutions | Hal Harvey | Energy Seminar
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Hal Harvey is the CEO of Energy Innovation, a San Francisco-based energy and environmental policy firm. Since its inception in 2012, Energy Innovation has delivered high-quality research and analysis to policymakers around the world and across a range of jurisdictions to help inform their energy policy decisions.
From 1991-2002, Hal served as founder and CEO of the Energy Foundation, a philanthropy supporting policy solutions that advance renewable energy and energy efficiency. He then helped establish Energy Foundation China, the European Climate Foundation, and the Indian Sustainable Energy Foundation. From 2002-2008, he served as Environment Program Director at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Hal Harvey is the CEO of Energy Innovation makes snide references to closing 9 or 10 nuclear power plants. Nuclear power plants are non-CO2 energy producers. How can you be sincere about climate change and eliminate a key non CO2 producing resource? I guess the following explains it ... $20 million commitment in addition to ExxonMobilâs GCEP investment of more than $100 million ... Exxon website https://goo.gl/dm75Jw
Hal has served on energy panels appointed by Presidents Bush (41) and Clinton, and has published two books and dozens of articles on energy and national security issues. He is President of the Board of Directors of the New-Land Foundation, Chairman of the Board of MB Financial Corporation, and Vice Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for Mercator Climate Center. He is also a Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Paulson Institute, in 2016 was awarded the Heinz Award for the Environment, and in 2018 was honored with the United Nationâs Clean Air and Climate Change Award.
Early in his career, Hal designed and built solar homes, and built an electric car for his commute. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University in Engineering, specializing in Energy Planning.
How is Mark Z. Jacobson enjoying that influx of cash from Exxon? ... $20 million commitment in addition to ExxonMobilâs GCEP investment of more than $100 million ... Exxon website https://goo.gl/dm75Jw ... That may explain his love for solar panels and wind turbines with the natural gas peaking plants to address intermittancy. That is why Exxon Mobil loves intermittancy ... Lots of natural gas with < 30% peaking plants as backup. No nice efficient Combined Cycle Natural Gas Plant > 58% efficiency ... What a surprise that Mark Z. Jacobson is anti-nuclear with Exxon $$$$ behind him. Nuclear is the way to go to minimize CO2 and address intermittancy from renewable energy with the new generation technologies or NuScale.
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Does he even know how big are the cities in China and India to travel by ebikes? He says we don't need cars in India and China. Wtf..!Most of the 200million ebikes in China he is talking about are lying in graveyards, no one uses them. He is just so stupid and naive.
@raviteza8Do birds, bees and bats like wind turbines? What about advanced biofuels and carbon sequestration? What about nuclear? Bicycles and walking? Is nitrogen a problem? Cuomo doesn't do, but he sure does promise. Which is more important, doing or promising? Is NY in good energy shape, despite having a czar? Obama didn't do 55 mpg. He just promised that others would get there. Is there a Nobel Prize for promising? Why are there about a million electric vehicles but 22 million flex-fuel vehicles? What happens when car companies are required to make cars that they have to sell at a loss and still most people don't want to buy them? Is anyone still reading this?
@barrymiller99You are correct about grid level battery storage, it is decades away, wasteful, and probably infeasible. These are necessary for wind and solar(low concentration,intermittent sources of energy). You are right that efficiency upgrades are necessary, but I have not heard you talk about nuclear(high concentration energy), the lowest carbon energy.
 Specifically, advanced MSR tech, which can power carbon capture(which can be turned into fuels), the waste heat from that process can generate copious amounts of electricity for the grid, and the waste heat from power generation can be used to desalinate water. This can be done on your timescale, at scale, while being economically viable, probably keeping grid power at today's cost, maybe cheaper. All of this without flexible usage, while keeping liquid fuels, saving us from all the problems with batteries, and without being sneaky.
 All it takes are people willing to educate others about these real solutions, without carbon taxes, that we have the technology for today.
What about the extreme weather in America from 1934 to 1937 with a fraction of the CO2 concentration that we have today?. Are you sure that man-made "climate change" is not a hoax?.
@nekeke1Great talk.
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