The seventh annual Tufts Energy Conference kicks off this afternoon at the Cabot Intercultural Center and will run until tomorrow.
The conference will feature speakers from industrial, governmental and nonprofit organizations and panels on the topics of nuclear energy, wind and solar energy; energy production and water consumption; financing renewable energy; energy demand in developing countries and fossil fuels. The keynote speakers are Senior Fellow of the United Nations Foundation Mohamed El Ashry, Tufts alumnus and Managing Director of Clear View Partners Kevin Book (LA '94) and Undersecretary for Energy at the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs Barbara Kates?Garnick.
The second annual Tufts Energy Competition will also be held this afternoon. The winning team will receive up to $3000 to implement its project, while the runner up will receive $2000. Conference attendees will vote for two winners among the five projects in the finals, including projects on a split-junction solar concentrator for generating electricity, ecological sanitation projects, a kinetic sculpture near Olin Hall and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy that would generate electricity, ocean-based algae energy for biofuel and the introduction of low-cost solar power in areas of Pakistan.
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