News & Notes

Feedback on the Energy Hub Conference

Some press on the issues covered at the Energy Hub Conference:
The Badger Herald, "Energy Forum Looks Ahead"
by Katherine Kehoe, 11/10/08
The Daily Cardinal, "Environmental Activist Pushes Nuclear Energy"
by Cathy Martin, 11/10/08
The Daily Cardinal, "Developing more nuclear plants
in U.S. necessary, overdue"
by Joseph Koss, 11/13/08

Do you have feedback or comments on the Energy Hub Conference?  Come to our "debriefing" on Monday, November 17 at the Memorial Union.  We'll have free pizza and drinks starting at 7:30pm (check TITU for the room location).  We'd like to talk to Energy Hub members and other conference attendees about the questions that didn't get answered at the conference.  If you have a question or opinion that needs to be heard, come talk to us!

For more information: info@uwehub.org

 

Photos from "Energizing the Midwest" November 7, 2008

   

        

     

   

   

 

Thanks for attending the 2008 Energy Hub Conference! 

We'll be adding photos and video from the conference to our webpage this week, so check back soon.  If you'd like to learn more about Energy Hub, or join the Executive Team to help plan other events and next year's conference, send us an email: info@uwehub.org.

We have lots of ideas for the coming semester, including power plant tours, special lecture events, monthly social discussions, and an energy-course-development plan.  Join us!  To become a member of Energy Hub, send an email to our Communications Director, Ted Holby: holby@wisc.edu.  Membership is free and open to all UW-Madison students. 

Thanks again to our generous sponsors for making Energy Hub possible!  Visit our Sponsors Page

 

Energy Hub is Featured in the November Issue of Madison Magazine

ENERGIZING THE COMMUNITY
- Madison Magazine, November 2008, p. 12
“Many students don’t yet understand the scale and complexity of the technical, economic, political and social issues that must accompany any serious discussion about energy.  Our group serves as a crossroads for the widely varied interests in the energy community. Our members are scientists, engineers, environmentalists and policy students, among others, who recognize that we’ll have to work together to solve what may be the biggest problem humanity has ever faced.”
– Nathan Pinney, a UW–Madison graduate student in materials science and president of Energy Hub, or eHub, an organization formed to ignite conversation and action on energy issues.  

Click the photo for the PDF version of the Madison Magazine article. 

Thanks to Energy Hub Executive Member Tyler Giles
for this excellent observation:

November 7, 2008 is the 35th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's
promise of energy independence by 1980:

"Let this be our national goal: At the end of this decade, in the year 1980, the United States will not be dependent on any other country for the energy we need to provide our jobs, to heat our homes, and to keep our transportation moving."

"Let us set as out national goal, in the spirit of Apollo, with the determination of the Manhattan project, that by the end of this decade we will have developed the potential to meet our own energy needs without depending on any foreign energy source"

Here is Tyler's perspective:

"35 years is symbolic, to me, of the minimum age of a US president.  So, hypothetically speaking, a person could now be president who had never lived without "energy independence" rhetoric.

Alternatively, it was the Yom Kippur War and Arab Oil Embargo (and looming Watergate downfall, some say) that compelled Nixon to make that speech; so one could say that a person could now be president that had not lived without the threat of petro-geo-political conflict."

The 2008 Energy Hub Conference "Energizing the Midwest" on Friday, November 7 takes place exactly 35 years after Nixon made these statements.  How many times have we heard similar promises since then?  Are we and our leaders ready to get serious about our energy future?  Register for the conference today.

 

Events Listings from the UW Energy Institute

 
Wednesday, November 12
Balancing Energy, Food and Climate: The Issues, Trade-offs and Opportunities in Agriculture Policy
Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW-Madison

Friday, December 5
Ethical Obligations and Considerations: Working with the Public Service Commission
Wisconsin Public Utility Institute

 

 

Energy Hub provides an interface for students, researchers, and campus organizations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison interested in energy.

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