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Notes from the UC Berkeley Energy Symposium

March 27th, 2008 · 5 Comments

A few weeks ago, I attended the UC Berkeley Energy Symposium.
It was a very thought provoking and educational day. I have below my detailed notes from the sessions I attended. But before moving on to those I’d like to synthesize some of my key takeaways:

There is no silver bullet to the climate change/energy crisis problem. […]

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Tags: cleantech · climate change · politics · tech · venture capital

sticking to my prediction: hillary and mccain

March 5th, 2008 · Comments Off

over a month ago, before the first super tuesday, i predicted that mccain and hillary would be the presidential nominees. mccain first beat romney and then huckabee to validate my guess… tonight’s primaries in Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island was more of a formality to clinch his nomination…
on the democratic front, the last few […]

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obama’s words?

February 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off

living in berkeley, i will probably get lynched for posting this…
but the latest fiasco around obama’s borrowing of some of his speeches from massachusetts governor deval patrick, is something that cannot be ignored…
firstly, see the evidence.
first speech in question:

and the second speech in question:

and here is how the obama camp tries to play it down:
obama […]

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