S. David Freeman is on Ian Masters radio show "Background Briefing"

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S. David Freeman is being interviewed on Ian Masters radio show "Background Briefing"
He has a new book "Winning Our Energy Independence"
It's one of their fund-raising premiums.

live stream: http://www.kwire.org:8907/listen.pls
other live streams: http://www.kpfk.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=82
It will be archived later today at www.kpfk.org, and later in the week at www.ianmasters.org


Some info on Freeman:

From a 2003 interview: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people3/Freeman/freeman-con0.html

"Our guest today is S. David Freeman, who is the Chairman of the Board of the California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority. In his distinguished forty-year career of public service, Mr. Freeman has been "present at the creation," shaping our public awareness, helping design governmental institutions, and writing the laws that define the framework for U.S. environmental and energy policy. He has served as an advisor on energy and the environment to Presidents Johnson, Nixon, and Carter. He was Chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority during the Carter administration, and has run many of the most important public power utilities in the country."


From an evworld interview last month: http://www.evworld.com/article.cfm?archive=1&storyid=1315&first=2440&end=2439

Freeman's interest in energy policy began in the early 1970s when the Ford Foundation commissioned him to study the problem, along with a small group of students whom he employed to help in the research. It was that study that pioneered the concept that "efficiency would be a huge source of energy" or what today is often referred to as "negawatts". Soon-to-be-President Jimmy Carter read the report and made it the foundation of his energy policy.

Freeman's interest in renewable energy, the environment, and energy conservation was spurred as a young man growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee by the work of the newly created Tennessee Valley Authority or TVA whose engineering efforts tamed flood waters with hydro-electric dams bringing power and prosperity to an impoverished part of the nation.

During his many years in government and the utility industry, Freeman says he's stuck to the truth and resisted efforts to sway his convictions about energy and the environment. In the book, he talks about after taking over the TVA, he shut down eight then-under-construction nuclear power plants because they were hugely uneconomic, preventing -- he argues -- the TVA from going bankrupt in the process.

He says that our truly abundant energy sources are the renewables, which include wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, water (wave,tidal,hydropower) and that there is plenty of each to replace all of our current fossil fuel and nuclear power plants. We also need to make the transition, sooner, rather than later, he stressed.

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