Energy Visionary offers roadmap to clean energy future.
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Jeremy Rifkin, famed author and hydrogen proponent, will be opening the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy 2011 Conference and Exposition on Feb 14, 2011. Rifkin will lay out vision of emerging energy age, where convergence of alternative energy sources, enabled by hydrogen, and latest developments in communications create pivotal changes in the world economy. His address will show how hydrogen and fuel cells will transform today's energy infrastructure into smart, efficient, clean energy network.
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Energy Visionary Offers Roadmap to Clean Energy Future
RENOWNED ENERGY VISIONARY OFFERS ROADMAP TO CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE AT FUEL CELL AND HYDROGEN ENERGY 2011
Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Energy Seen as Essential Elements in Clean Energy Portfolio and Key to American Competitiveness, Job Growth and National Security
Jeremy Rifkin, famed author and hydrogen proponent, will be opening the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy 2011 Conference and Exposition on February 14, 2011, the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association (FCHEA) announced today.
"We are poised at the cusp of a significant point in history, a point where a new paradigm in the world's economic future is about to come to fruition - and hydrogen will be at the centerpiece of that new revolution: The Third Industrial Revolution," stated Rifkin.
Rifkin will lay out a compelling vision of the emerging energy age, where the convergence of alternative energy sources, enabled by hydrogen, and the latest developments in communications create pivotal changes in the world economy. His address will show how hydrogen and fuel cells will transform today's energy infrastructure into a smart, efficient, clean energy network.
There is an urgent need to prepare the infrastructure and marketplace for the coming convergence. Being first to market will be crucial in this new landscape, for countries as well as for the companies that will make this a reality. Already Europe and Asia have grasped this and are putting the needed enablers in place and laying the groundwork to speed the evolution of the Third Industrial Revolution. The countries that do not act with the same urgency risk losing out on technology and market leadership, as well as being left behind in the new economic paradigm.
Come and hear Mr. Rifkin's powerful discussion of why hydrogen energy and fuel cell technology are the answer to re-energizing the world's economy - and how companies like those at FCHE 2011 can and should lead the way.
Jeremy Rifkin is president of The Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, DC. and teaches at the Wharton School's Executive Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania Jeremy Rifkin has been an advisor the European Union for the past decade. In that capacity, he has advised five of the last eight Presidents of the European Council including: Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany; Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of Spain; and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France. Mr. Rifkin also advised Romano Prodi, during his presidency of the European Commission, and José Manuel Barosso, the current President of the European Commission. Mr. Rifkin is the best-selling author of eighteen books on environmental, energy and economic related issues including The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the World Wide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth (Tarcher/Penguin).
