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CTO of the U.S.
Clean energy investor John Doerr advises Barack Obama to hire Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, as the nation's first chief technology officer (a position Obama has said he'll create). Doerr also says "the most important thing [Obama]'s got to do is kick-start a huge amount of research and innovation in energy."
Here's Bill Joy on renewables:
Who do you think should be the country's CTO?
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sunflower Posted 9:44 am
06 Nov 2008
Please seek objective management beyond vested interests... National Renewable Energy Laboratory, universities, non-profits, people with energy economics engineering.
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Delay And Deny Posted 10:54 am
06 Nov 2008
The web and Internet don't have CTO's.
But if America wants a Project Lead, I'd make it Linus Torvalds.
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amazingdrx Posted 2:03 pm
06 Nov 2008
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin
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rwhiten1 Posted 11:41 pm
06 Nov 2008
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Biodiversivist Posted 1:32 am
07 Nov 2008
This should not be a celebrity contest. Rich guys got us into this mess.
Joy's thoughts on biofuels:
Although biofuels--fuels like ethanol made from plants--are garnering the bulk of investment dollars, Joy thinks that "electric vehicles will beat biofuels." That means that the transportation and electricity grid will be increasingly interlinked.
In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world
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