[Mitworld] New: Tester on Geothermal Energy Sources, Moss on The Media Lab

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[GEOTHERMAL - AN UNDERVALUED PRIMARY U.S. ENERGY SOURCE]

Geothermal energy remains the poor cousin in our current stable of
renewable resources, in spite of offering enormous benefits. That's
Jefferson Tester's inescapable conclusion, after participating in a
Department of Energy investigation into the technical and economic
viability of tapping into this potentially vast energy pool.

SPEAKER:
Jefferson W. Tester
H. P. Meissner Professor of Chemical Engineering, Laboratory for
Energy and the Environment, Department of Chemical Engineering


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/444/>

[QUOTE]
"Unless you're from Iceland or know about geyser sites and live in
Nevada or Arizona, you don't know about geothermal. We're trying to
increase awareness that technology of enhancing or engineering
(geothermal) systems may not be as far way as we think."
-- Jefferson W. Tester


EVENT HOST: MIT Museum <http://web.mit.edu/museum/>

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[WHAT'S NEW AT THE MEDIA LAB?]

Under new leadership, MIT's Media Lab has shifted gears significantly.
This forum gives viewers a sense of the Lab's current priorities, via an
overview by new Lab director Frank Moss, and three student
presentations.

SPEAKER:
Frank Moss
Director, MIT Media Lab
Professor of the Practice of Media Arts and Sciences
Jerome B. Wiesner Professorship of Media Technology


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/442/>

[QUOTE]
"Today, for all the wonders we have, people are afraid of the future. I
see an opportunity to take a platform like the Media Lab, and direct
this toward ...a better future, a way in which technology can impact
people at a deeper level. This begins with people who are disabled,
people who are disadvantaged, socially or economically, or
disenfranchised."
-- Frank Moss


EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum <http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/>

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