Power Shift: The U.S. Navy and Global Energy Reform

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🗓️ 18 August 2010

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Power Shift: The U.S. Navy and Global Energy Reform Ray Mabus, Secretary of the U.S. Navy Greg Dalton, Founder of Climate One Within 10 years, the United States Navy will get one-half of all its energy needs, both afloat and ashore, from non-fossil fuel sources,” Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says. He believes that the US military can jump-start the clean energy revolution. “If we can begin to get this energy from different places and from different sources, then I think you can flip the line from ‘Field of Dreams’: If the Navy comes, they will build it. If we provide the market, then I think you’ll begin to see the infrastructure being built, the price per kilowatt-hour come down.” The Navy’s carbon footprint is vast – it consumes about 1 percent of all the energy used in the United States – and last fall announced an ambitious plan to slash fuel use and carbon emissions by buying hybrid vehicles, moving away from petroleum, and constructing energy efficient buildings. Mabus also serves as President Obama’s point person for recovery in the Gulf. Work is needed, he says, to modernize the technology by which oil companies respond to spills, and to update the legal structure under which they operate. “Obviously, the cap that was placed on oil companies, which was $70 million, did not anticipate anything remotely like this incident. The legal structure … needs to be updated to take into account realities as they exist today,” Mabus says. Asked by Climate One’s Greg Dalton what an appropriate dollar figure for the liability cap might be, Mabus replied: “I’m not sure there needs to be a cap.” This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on August 16, 2010 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	How will we power our future? Can we create a healthy and clean economy? Climate One at the
0:36.0	Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy, economy, and the environment.
0:41.5	Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time, Climate One is the place where big ideas get heard.
0:48.2	With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and culture, Climate One founder Greg Dalton gets to the heart of the matter.
0:56.3	It's our future. It's time to come together.
0:59.4	Welcome to Climate One of the Commonwealth Club. I'm Greg Dalton.
1:02.3	The BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig plunged into the Gulf of Mexico on April 22nd,
1:07.5	the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.
1:10.0	Something else happened that day that you probably haven't heard about.
1:13.1	The U.S. Navy tested a Green Hornet, F.A. 18, fighter, powered by fuel made from Camalina,
1:19.1	a hardy U.S. grown plant that can thrive even in difficult soil.
1:22.9	Navy Secretary Ray Mabas called the test a milestone in the development of biofuels.
1:27.7	Secretary Mabas is here today to discuss the costs and dangers of fossil fuels and the promise
1:32.7	of cleaner and more secure energy supplies. Ray Mabas served as a surface warfare officer in the U.S.
1:38.6	Navy from 1970 to 72 and then pursued a career in government in Washington, D.C. and his home state of Mississippi.
1:46.4	In 1988, he was elected governor of Mississippi, and in 1994, President Clinton appointed him as an
1:52.6	ambassador to Saudi Arabia. In 2009, he became Secretary of the U.S. Navy, and this summer, President
1:58.8	Obama asked him to develop a long-term plan for the restoration of the Gulf ofS. Navy, and this summer, President Obama asked him to develop a long-term plan
2:01.4	for the restoration of the Gulf of Mexico. Please welcome Secretary Mabas to Climate 1.
2:12.3	Thank you so much for that introduction, and thank you all for being here tonight.
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