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<div><font color="#000000">MIT's Energy Research Council initiated a
series of energy colloquia that is of interest to faculty, staff and
students across the campus. MIT President Susan Hockfield and
former Provost Robert Brown appointed the Energy Research Council
"to lead the planning for the initiative in energy-related
research and education--including developing a picture of the current
state of MIT energy-related research and expertise; developing a list
of promising science and engineering research areas that match global
needs and MIT capabilities; and recommending an organizational
structure that would facilitate work in these areas." (Tech
Talk, June 8, 2005) The third colloquium will be presented by
Amory Lovins, Founder and CEO of Rocky Mountain Institute, TODAY,
February 27, 2006 in Wong Auditorium, Tang Center at MIT. The flyer is
attached. Everyone is welcome!</font></div>
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ENERGY COLLOQUIUM ANNOUNCEMENT</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">Title:<x-tab> </x-tab>"Winning the
Oil Endgame"</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br>
Speaker:<x-tab>
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Institute</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">Date:<x-tab> </x-tab>February
27, 2006</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Time:<x-tab> </x-tab>4:00
PM</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Place:<x-tab> </x-tab>Wong
Auditorium, E51, Tang Center</font></div>
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</x-tab>Corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets at MIT</font></div>
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<div><font
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</x-tab>Energy Research Council, Lab for Energy and the
Environment</font></div>
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Reception:<x-tab> </x-tab>Ting Foyer
immediately following the colloquium<br>
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Abstract:<br>
By the 2040s, the United States can eliminate its use of oil and
revitalize its economy, led by business for profit. Existing
technologies can redouble the efficiency of using oil (including
tripling the efficiency of uncompromised cars, trucks, and planes) at
an average cost of $12/bbl, and can replace remaining oil use with
advanced biofuels and saved natural gas. These innovations don't
require fuel taxes, subsidies, mandates, or new Federal laws, but can
be driven by competitive strategy for the car, truck, plane, and fuel
industry and by military requirements.<br>
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Bio:</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Amory Lovins founded and leads the Rocky
Mountain Institute (RMI), an independent, market-oriented,
entrepreneurial, nonprofit, nonpartisan applied research center that
creates abundance by design. Much of its pathfinding work on advanced
resource productivity (typically with expanding returns to investment)
and innovative business strategies is synthesized in<i> Natural
Capitalism</i>. RMI has served more than 80<i> Fortune</i> 500 firms,
lately redesigning upwards of $20 billion worth of facilities spanning
22 sectors. RMI spun off E Source in 1992 and Fiberforge, Inc.,
a composites engineering firm, in 1999. His 28th book,<i> Small
is Profitable</i>, an Economist book of the year, was published in
2002, and his Pentagon-cosponsored 29th book,<i> Winning the Oil
Endgame</i>, in 2004.</font></div>
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Amory Lovins has been named a MacArthur Fellow and has been recognized
by the "Alternative Nobel," Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell
Prizes, the Benjamin Franklin and Happold Medals, nine honorary
doctorates, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, Time Hero for the Planet, and
World Technology Awards. He has advised the U.S. Departments of Energy
and of Defense and industries and governments in more than fifty
countries</font></div>
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<div>Marie Tangney<br>
Laboratory for Energy and the Environment<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue<br>
Room E40-455<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
U. S. A.<br>
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Phone:<x-tab> </x-tab>(617)258-8891<br>
Fax: <x-tab>
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email:<x-tab> </x-tab>mtangney@mit.edu</div>
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