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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>We are pleased to announce the first speaker for the fall 2008 MIT
Energy Initiative Seminar Series. The seminars will take place each month in
room 66-110 from 4:15 -5:45 pm and will be followed by a reception. For more
information, please visit the MITEI website at <a
href="http://mit.edu/mitei/news/seminars"
title="http://mit.edu/mitei/news/seminars">http://mit.edu/mitei/news/seminars</a> or contact
Jameson Twomey at <a href="mailto:jtwomey@mit.edu"
title="mailto:jtwomey@mit.edu">jtwomey@mit.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>We hope you will join us tomorrow, September 9 to hear Thomas
Casten, founder and CEO of Recycled Energy Development.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>*****<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Profitably Reducing Greenhouse Gas
Emissions</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Thomas R. Casten, founder and
CEO of Recycled Energy Development</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Date: Tuesday, September 9<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Time: 4:15 pm – 5:45 PM [Reception follows]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Location: 66-110 (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Landau</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">25 Ames Street</st1:address></st1:Street>, MIT
Campus)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Abstract</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Climate change and energy concerns call forth energy policies, but there
is a failure to understand societal costs of each alternative action.
Furthermore, economists and policy advisors assume the present energy
conversion system is economically optimal, given current technology.
Drawing on 30 years of developing $2.0 billion of local generation projects
that recycle waste energy, Casten analyzes the societal costs and savings of
twelve alternate approaches to generating electricity. The presentation will
show how the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
could achieve two billion tons of CO2 reduction per year while saving over $100
billion per year. The presentation ends with suggested policy changes to induce
profitable GHG reductions and start an energy efficiency revolution. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>About the Speaker</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Thomas R. Casten has spent 30 years developing decentralized energy
recycling projects. He was founding president and CEO of Trigen Energy
Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange corporation and its predecessors from
1977 through 2000; and he served until 2006 as founding chair and CEO of
Primary Energy Ventures LLC. Tom also has served as president of the
International District Energy Association, received the Normal R. Taylor Award
for distinguished achievement and contributions to the industry, and has been
named a “CHP Champion” by the U.S. Combined Heat and Power
Association. He is co-founder and former chairman of the World Alliance for
Distributed Energy (WADE), an umbrella organization of national CHP and
distributed energy associations, equipment vendors, government agencies, and
foundations that promote distributed generation to optimize the world's power
system. In 2006, the WADE board inducted Tom as the first member of the WADE
Hall of Fame. Tom’s book, Turning off the Heat, published by Prometheus
Press in 1998, explains how the world can save money and pollution. He recently
co-authored a chapter in Energy Myth and American Society, Thirteen Myths
(Sovacool & Brown), challenging the assumption that the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> electric
system is optimal.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>*****<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>MIT Energy Initiative Seminar Series
[Fall 2008 - Spring 2009]</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) is an Institute-wide
initiative designed to help transform global energy systems to meet the
needs of the future. Led by Ernie Moniz, Director, and Bob
Armstrong, Deputy Director, MITEI is building community around energy
events and a collaborative research agenda. The energy seminar series continues
this fall and will feature speakers on a variety of energy-related
issues. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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