Now if we take a look at the impact of wildfires on the u. S. Electric grid, mitigation technology, Forest Management and power system reliability. Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. Last hearing of the year here. Theres a lot going on this morning so i think we will have people popping in and out but we do have a pretty hard to stop at 11 00 oclock this morning. A series of votes that are beginning at 11 00 a. M. And we are going to observe an actual ten minute clock, we are told. It will be the first time in Senate History but that is the goal. We want to be able to hear from everyone this morning and have an opportunity for the very, very important conversations regarding this issue. We are here to discuss the impact of wildfires on the reliability of our electric grid and efforts to mitigate wildfire risk and increase good resiliency. In recent years devastating wildfires and related electricity blackouts in california have drawn National Attention to the chal
On. I am joined on stage today by six incredible individuals, each of whom have helped shape the history and the future of human space flight. So ill give a little introduction. He gave an introduction about myself, but as he said, my name is deanne. Much like many of our panelists today am an engineer. Unlike most of our panelists today, i have never been to space. Which gives you an idea of the impressiveness next to me. But i did grow up in brevard county, florida, and Cape Canaveral, and i have watched many of you launch to space, and it has been an inspiration in my life and one of the reasons that i chose to pursue engineering. Ive gone on to have a bit of an atypical career. Im an engineering tv host nowadays, and also founder and ceo of future engineers and we actually have a current challenge that was launched with nasa where students can name the next mars rover, so i dont know if youchb you know but the mars curiosity rover was named by a kindergarten through 12 student. We
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