Tuesday, February 24, 2009

**** Nation's leaders urge action on better electricity grid

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/23/electricity.grid/
CNN:  U.S. political, business and environmental leaders urged the nation Monday to act quickly to build a unified, national electricity grid, both to diminish the impact of global warming and to boost the economy."We need to move with a sense of urgency," Energy Secretary Steven Chu said at a forum called the National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy, which was hosted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund."We need a very, very smart grid," said the Nobel laureate physicist and former director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...Former President Clinton, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and UN Foundation President Timothy Wirth....