[statecom-discuss] Tufts University-School of Engineering and Atlantis Energy Systems, Inc. present

[Maureen Doyle]

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thought you'd all be interested.

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Tufts University-School of Engineering and Atlantis
Energy Systems, Inc. present

Dr. Hermann Scheer

Energy Autonomy:

The economic, social and technological case for
renewable energy

February 24, 2007 at 2:00 P.M.

Tufts University, 008 Barnum Hall

Medford, Massachusetts

For 200 years industrial civilization has relied on
the combustion of abundant and cheap

carbon fuels. But continued reliance has had perilous
consequences. On the one hand

there is the insecurity of relying on the world’s most
unstable region the Middle East 

compounded by the imminence of peak oil, growing
scarcity and mounting prices. On

the other, the potentially cataclysmic consequences of
continuing to burn fossil fuels, as

the evidence of accelerating climate change shows.

Yet there is a solution: to make the transition to
renewable sources of energy and

distributed, decentralized energy generation. It is a
model that has been proven,

technologically, commercially and politically, as
Hermann Scheer comprehensively

demonstrates. The alternative of a return to nuclear
power again being widely

advocated he shows to be compromised and illusory.

The advantages of renewable energy are so clear and so
overwhelming that resistance

to them needs diagnosis which Scheer also provides,
showing why and how

entrenched interests oppose the transition and what
must be done to overcome these

obstacles.



Biography:

Dr. Hermann Scheer is a member of the German
Parliament, President of EUROSOLAR, the

European Association for Renewable Energy, and General
Chairman of the World Council for

Renewable Energy. He devoted the greatest part of his
political and scientific life to the

replacement of nuclear and fossil fuels with
environmentally sound energy sources. In the

German Parliament, the German Renewable Energy
Feed-in-Tariff-Law, the new Federal

Building Law prioritizing Renewable Energies and the
Tax-Free-Law for Biofuels are based on his

initiatives. These laws became the most successful
Renewable Energy industrial promotion and

application worldwide.

Dr. Scheer has received numerous awards including the
World Wind Energy Award, the World

Prize on Bio-Energy and the World Solar Prize as well
as the Alternative Nobel Prize. In 2002

Time Magazine recognized him as one of five
��Heroes for the Green
Century��.

His books include Energy Autonomy (2006), The Solar
Economy (2002) and A Solar Manifesto

(1994).

Directions at http://www.tufts.edu/home/maps/medford/

Ample parking ($5) in the garage located at 419 Boston
Avenue, Medford, MA 02155





 
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