Viable in the philippines. Again, human behavior. Its taken them ten years to pass the Renewable Energy act. Its taken them another five years. Human behavior effects this. And i think theres a lot of opportunities where asia can do better. Biofuels, and i call this more efficient use of coal. When i was in charge of the clean energy program, i got hammered i used to get hammered all the time by grease peace, because it was called the asian dams and bridges bank and we finance a lot of coal, they say its changed. But they use to hammer us all the time and say, no, you cant use clean coal because youre whitewashing the problem. Theres no such thing as clean coal. Coal is dirty. And so we in the peace treaty we decided that whenever we talk about clean coal, supposed to call it more efficient use of coal. When i say more efficient use of coal, i mean ccs. And we have some funding from the ccs institute. And weve been working in india, china, vietnam and chio on the for ccs. And weve been
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
Utility partners in building more gas but still worried about those price shocks and they see keeping coal in the mix is one of the ways that they can avoid those kinds of shocks as part of what they do. Last thing i will say, of course, is thats the United States story. In other countries, coal is much more prevalent and the availability of gas much more limited. So, from a global perspective, we certainly see coal as an important player, not just in the United States or not just in north america but many parts of the world. Hi, Charles Ebinger from brookings. Julio, it seems to an outsider that the administration a bit schizophrenic on ccs and coal, in general, because the one hand, we have the excellent would, that you have highlighted the doe is doing, the other hand, we look at the organizations like opec, xn bank, so forth, as well as our positions in financial institutions, we seem to take a very negative attitude toward financing coal in other localities. Could you make a comme
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