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President Barack Obama called for increased use of renewable energy and levied criticisms against opponents of the energy and climate bill now making its way through Congress during a speech at MIT on Friday...
Addressing a crowd of MIT students, faculty, and local supporters of clean energy programs, Obama lauded MIT’s Energy Initiative launched Sept. 2006 to advance energy-related research, education, and outreach activities at the school...
Earlier that morning, MIT President Susan Hockfield gave Obama a tour of MIT research laboratories, pointing out advances in energy research and technology, including generating electricity by directing light to solar cells in windows and engineering viruses to create high-power batteries...
...understand there's no silver bullet to do it. There's going to be a lot of debate about how we move from an economy that's importing oil to one that's exporting clean energy technology; how we harness the innovative potential on display here at MIT to create millions of new jobs; and how we will lead the world to prevent the worst consequences of climate change. There are going to be all sorts of debates, both in the laboratory and on Capitol Hill. But there's no question that we must do all these things...
...reject that argument. I reject it because of what I've seen here at MIT. Because of what I have seen across America. Because of what we know we are capable of achieving when called upon to achieve it. This is the nation that harnessed electricity and the energy contained in the atom, that developed the steamboat and the modern solar cell. This is the nation that pushed westward and looked skyward. We have always sought out new frontiers and this generation is no different...