Cornell Club Event: “The Ramifications of Carbon Mitigation Paradigms: Can the Public Win when Politics Overshadow the Science of Engineering?”

As an alumn of Cornell University, I get access to all speaking events at the Cornell Club, and recently there has been a lot of talk about green energy/environmental issues. Yesterday, I attended the talk "The Ramifications of Carbon Mitigation Paradigms: Can the Public Win when Politics Overshadow the Science of Engineering?” by a Cornell Engineer (who has worked as a Power Plant Developer) named Adam Victor. Adam Victor currently is the President of TransGas Energy Systems, LLC.
He spoke in length about the possible threats that can occur from the failed US evironmental policies and the past Administration's inability to act on their enviornmental agendas towards curbing climate change. In particular, he spoke about New York City as the place where possible catastrophic events can and will occur, if we dont make REAL changes in our legislation. He touched on the point that we have become a country that argues against building any sort of power plants (iindistrial plants/power plant production/carbon sequestration plants) close to areas where we work, live, eat or breathe. He identified several key projects in the city that were passed up because of community protest. His response makes sense. What difference does the opinion of a residential community make when it comes to the larger national and even global community towards creating new plants that use energy waste and recycle it as renewable power, or creating power plants that capturing carbon.

You can learn more about Adam Victor's ideas by reading the latest New Yorker article about his endeavors: http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/12346/