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...with an efficiency of 40% or better, while Chinese plants are generally much lower. Closing that gap could make a difference - but again, the sheer scale of that growth requires far more. "We need to develop that leapfrog attitude for developing countries," said Jose Goldemberg, the panel's co-chair and a professor at the Institute of Electrotechnics and Energy at the University of Sao Paulo...
...development was just $9 billion in 2005 - about a billion less than the U.S. is currently spending in Iraq per month. That has to be doubled, at least. "We need money on the magnitude of what the U.S. invested in the Apollo program," said Steven Chu, another co-chair and the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California-Berkeley. "I'm confident that will lead to a lot of breakthroughs on energy technology...
...School William A. Graham signed onto the response, but said that Yale’s statement was “symbolic more than anything.” Student response has been overwhelmingly positive, according to President of the Harvard Islamic Society Shaheer A. Rizvi ’08 and Chair of the Harvard College Interfaith Council Zeba A. Syed ’09. “The fact that both sides are willing to extend their hands is very promising for future relations between adherents of the two traditions,” Syed said. “Graham, by signing...
...next dean. The students questioned Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith about the dearth of minority members on the eight-member advisory committee that will help him search for the next Dean of the College. Nworah B. Ayogu ’10, the political action chair of the Harvard Black Men’s Forum and lead organizer of the meeting with Smith, said he had set up the meeting out of concern that an all-white advisory committee might not have the cultural breadth necessary to pick a dean representative of the entire student body...
...Harvard seniors on this year’s lightweight varsity, with just one—Matt Young—bringing varsity boat experience to the Crimson. Lightweight captain Pat Mulcahy sat seven-seat in the second varsity eight last year, while fellow senior Matthew Fasman, who is also a chair of the Crimson’s information technology board, rowed in the third varsity in 2007.Young’s fellow varsity oarsman, Moritz Hafner, is spending what would be his senior year in Switzerland training for the 2008 Olympics. “Over half the varsity team...