Clean Money (9/28/12)

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🗓️ 3 October 2012

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Clean Money Dennis McGinn, President, American Council on Renewable Energy Clint Wilder, Author, Clean Tech Nation John Bohn, CEO, Renewable Energy Trust The funding outlook is cloudy for parts of the clean energy sector. Production tax credits for wind energy may expire at the end of the year, and some members of Congress are taking aim at military spending on innovative biofuels as Pentagon budget cuts loom. Since the Solyndra disaster, there's been vigorous debate about what level of risk government should take with taxpayer money. Yet many major advances in American energy and transportation – from jet engines to interstate highways and nuclear power – involved public-private partnerships. Can government and business partnerships around clean fuels be forged in the current political climate? What technology areas are most promising? What policies are having the most impact? Join a discussion about getting the money flowing so clean energy can flow. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on September 28, 2012 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How will we power our future? Can we create a healthy and clean economy?
0:05.0	Climate One at the Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy, economy, and the environment.
0:11.4	Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time,
0:15.2	Climate One is the place where big ideas get heard.
0:18.2	With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and culture,
0:22.7	Climate One founder Greg Dalton gets to the heart of the matter. It's our future. It's time to come
0:28.5	together. Welcome to Climate One at the Commonwealth Club. I'm Greg Dalton. Today we're plugging into the
0:33.8	country's clean energy markets and how they are funded. Renewable power has been
0:38.2	growing quickly and now accounts for one-fifth of electricity generated worldwide, according to
0:43.9	the International Energy Agency. Getting away from fossil fuels for transportation has been a
0:48.7	tougher slog. Batteries for electric cars remain expensive, and biofuels using inputs that don't compete with food have been slow to develop.
0:58.1	Yet looking at the recent freak weather, biblical floods, epic droughts, fires, melting ice caps,
1:04.6	the imperative of delinking carbon pollution from economic growth is stronger than ever.
1:10.3	Over the next hour, we'll discuss
1:11.6	financing and building a clean energy future with our live audience here at the Commonwealth
1:15.9	Club in San Francisco. We're pleased to be joined by three experts. John Bonn is CEO of the Renewable
1:21.6	Energy Trust. He also is a former CEO of Moody's Investor Services and a former chairman and CEO of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
1:31.1	Dennis McGinn is president of the American Council on Ruinable Energy in Washington, D.C.
1:36.1	He is a retired Vice Admiral in the United States Navy where he commanded the third fleet in the North Pacific.
1:42.2	I should also mention he's a member of the Climate One Advisory Council.
1:45.8	Clint Wilder is author of Clean Tech Nation,
1:48.3	how the U.S. can lead in the new global economy,
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