I think its completely crazy were doing substantive work on the 17th of december. I cant imagine were holding real conferences here right the week before christmas, but we are, but thats because theres so much to talk about, and im so glad to have you all come. Thank you, thank you all for being here. My name is john hamre, im the president at csis. I wanted to say special thanks to Julio Friedmann who is a friend. We have known each other for many years. Hes fortunately in town serving in government more directly. Hes a government guy, hes out at Lawrence Livermore labs but were so pleased he can be here leading at a crucial time when we need to be thinking through a lot of important issues. For a very strange reason, recently i have been doing some personal reading on the history of philosophy, and i was recently reading about Thomas Robert maltous, a british cleric who in the early 18th century who was a very provocative philosopher because he had very dark views about the future of
Everybody. Things likes showcase projects for example in this country or in others. Also International Partnerships can accelerate the learning, sharing. Can accelerate deployment. We dont have to build five kinds of plants in five Different Countries if we can just build one plant in one country and share the results, it saves money and saves time in a very useful way. The International Landscape is also changing dramatically. Im sure many of you here watched the u. S. china accord that was announced in november. We were all very, very pleased with this. It includes, among other things, a large ccs project in china and a science project that is a joint International Project shared by the United States, china, and other nations. Were thrilled with this outcome. Theres also a new kind of project that the chinese are going to pilot, an enhanced Water Recovery project. Like enhanced oil recovery except pulling out oil you pull out brines and you use the pressure youre using in injection t
Robust across the portfolio, as people deploy these things, they all come to us and say we know how to cut the cost of our first project. Well just do the second project instead. The second project is always cheaper than the first by a lot. 20 to 30 is a very typical kind of number. I want to dwell on this for a moment because it helps make the point that i made earlier. An Environmental Group approached them and said youre going to spend 1. 4 billion on this project, thats a lot of money. How about you put a bunch of different solar panels, wind farms, do a bunch of efficiency measures, and that will be a better use of your money, better for your company, and it will be better for your customers. Reasoned, impassed pitch. The president said you know were in canada, right . Its dark here half the year. And when its dark is when we need the energy. Solar isnt a really great solution for us. Also, we cant put up wind 900 because they run miles an hour and rip apart the wind farms. Canada
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About how quickly he gets confused. Yeah. Flat out confused. His testing chief said it was impossible the same day President Trump said we were getting there soon. Is he not able to process information . Along with joe, willie, and me, we have white house for the Associated Press, Jonathan Lemire, and professor at Princeton University, eddie. With the u. S. Death toll from the coronavirus mounting, President Trump is rejecting the notion of a new normal and is insisting the virus will be eradicated, with or without a vaccine. Which no medical professional is saying that. I dont know how that works. Dr. Fauci isnt saying that. Dr. Birx isnt saying that. No one is saying that but President Trump thm. Donald trump said in february it was one person coming from china, and soon itd be zero. 11 to zero. 15 to zero. Of course, now, weve crossed the 60,000 dead threshold. As we just said, amid increasing pressure to ramp up testing, President Trump is backtracking, after saying on tuesday that