A Day with Al Gore

At the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit

March 2, 2016

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http://arpa-e.energy.gov/

http://www.arpae-summit.com/

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy "advances high-potential, high-impact energy technologies that are too early for private-sector investment. ARPA-E awardees are unique because they are developing entirely new ways to generate, store, and use energy."

http://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=news-item/arpa-e-projects-receive-more-125-billion-private-follow-funding-transformational-energy

https://youtu.be/g9aWatpFTpk

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Steve Clemons & Al Gore

GreenPolicy friend Steve Clemons conducts a wide-ranging interview and discussion with former vice president and environmental activist, Al Gore

Following are quotes from Tweets by A Siegel @A_Siegell sent live on location from the ARPA-e conference as Steve interviews and Al Gore answers...

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*.@algore We have $22T in stranded assets in fossil fuels. #arpae16 @ARPA #Divest #KeepitintheGround

*Economic calculations ignore externalities: negative (pollution) AND positive @algore @arpa #ARPAE16

*Last 18 months, fossil fuel assets have lost $100T in value @algore @arpa #arpae16

*The $22T in subprime assets something like 'Big Short' -- divestment has #climate and #financial imperative. @algore @arpa #arpae16

*.@algore: @ARPAE has proven its value. #ARPAE16

*Article on @algore's 'investment genius' cited on stage #ARPAE16. www.theatlantic.com/... @ARPAE

*.@algore: "@PaulPolman (@Unilever) one of the most innovative Corporate leaders in the world". #ARPAE16 @ARPAE

*"Job 1 is best return for our clients" even while seeking to advance positives. @algore #ARPAE16 @ARPAE

*"When you can do both [financial & social return], you put pressure on others to pay attention" @algore @ARPAE #ARPAE16 #investment

*Core question in #investment: Do you have a shadow price on #carbon? @algore #ARPAE16 @ARPAE #ActOnClimate #Climate

*Carbon is indicator of inefficiency -- and thus shadow price good guidepost for investing. @algore @ARPAE #ARPAE16

*We are absolutely, absolutely at an inflection point (re renewables, #solar, #pv, etc). @algore @ARPAE #ARPAE16

*.#Solar now at inflection point of #grid parity: #pv prices going down 10%/year for decades. @algore @ARPAE No sign of it stopping. #ARPAE16

*.@SCClemons to @algore: are we done, do we have every thing for #climate/#energy revolution? @ARPAE #ARPAE16 #ActOnClimate #Climate

*We have the momentum, but it matters how fast we #ActOnClimate. @algore @ARPAE #ARPAE16 #Climate

*Those trying us to prevent moves to #ActOnClimate are spending $1B/year on #tobacco-like disinformation. @algore

*As a byproduct of making money, creating jobs, ... we can save the future of humanity. @algore @ARPAE #ActOnClimate #Climate #ARPAE16

*We, a long time ago, woke up that we can't use Potomac or Thames River as a sewer. @algore @ARPAE #ActOnClimate #ARPAE16

*We can't treat atmosphere as a sewer any longer. @algore @ARPAE #ARPA16 #ActOnClimate

*.@SCClemons: Do you watch @GOP debates? Only Kasich has anything near rational to say on #climate. #ARPAE16 @algore @ARPAE

*Your advice to environmental orgs? @SCClemons to @algore @ARPAE #ARPAE16: Price on #carbon or #KeepItIntheGround? Response: All Of The Above

*How do you grade @BARACKOBAMA: @SCClemons to @algore @ARPAE #ARPAE16. First 3 months of 1st term, started well and then not really satisfied

*Since 2d inauguration speech, @BarackObama has been outstanding on #Climate. @algore @ARPAE #ARPAE16 #ActOnClimate @POTUS

*We are lucky to have @BarackObama as @POTUS. @algore #ARPAE16 @ARPAE

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More Reading

Background re: ARPA and Senator Gore

Re: 'the origins of the Internet'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

... In 1983, TCP/IP protocols replaced NCP as the ARPANET's principal protocol, and the ARPANET then became one subnet of the early Internet.

The original IMPs and TIPs were phased out as the ARPANET was shut down after the introduction of the NSFNet, but some IMPs remained in service as late as July 1990.

"The ARPANET Completion Report, jointly published by BBN and ARPA, concludes that: ... it is somewhat fitting to end on the note that the ARPANET program has had a strong and direct feedback into the support and strength of computer science, from which the network, itself, sprang.

In the wake of ARPANET being formally decommissioned on 28 February 1990, Vinton Cerf wrote the following lamentation, entitled "Requiem of the ARPANET":

It was the first, and being first, was best,

but now we lay it down to ever rest.

Now pause with me a moment, shed some tears.

For auld lang syne, for love, for years and years

of faithful service, duty done, I weep.

Lay down thy packet, now, O friend, and sleep.

- Vinton Cerf

Senator Albert Gore, Jr. began to craft the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as "The Gore Bill") after hearing the 1988 report toward a National Research Network submitted to Congress by a group chaired by Leonard Kleinrock, professor of computer science at UCLA. The bill was passed on 9 December 1991 and led to the National Information Infrastructure (NII) which Al Gore called the "information superhighway". ARPANET was the subject of two IEEE Milestones, both dedicated in 2009.

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Question of the extent of 'stranded (carbon) assets'

http://cleantechnica.com/2015/08/26/citigroup-predicts-100-trillion-in-stranded-assets-if-paris-summit-succeeds/

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http://www.energystoragesystems.com/ess-gets-a-1-1-chat-with-vp-al-gore-at-the-arpa-e-conference-in-d-c-today/