Dartmouth College gets $80 million to start energy institute

Dartmouth College gets $80 million
to start energy institute

HANOVER, N.H. — Dartmouth College has received an $80 million gift to create an energy institute to “prepare future generations of energy leaders” and advance understanding of the field.

The gift to help launch the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society was provided by Irving Oil, the Irving family foundation, and the family itself. Additional gifts of $33 million have been committed to the project, and Dartmouth plans to raise more.

Dartmouth said Friday the institute will “work at the intersection of energy and society” from four perspectives: technology and science, society and the environment, business and economics, and geopolitics. Research and programs will include nearly every academic department in an integrated, cross-disciplinary manner.

The institute is scheduled to open in 2020.

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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on September 17, 2016 at 3:08pm

Smart Arses would be more appropriate, but to simplify, drop the Smart. 

Comment by Long Islander on September 17, 2016 at 2:49pm

Any chance that in this brave new world of smart grids, smart appliances, smart phones, etc., that they are changing their name to Smartmouth, or would that just be Angus?

Comment by Penny Gray on September 17, 2016 at 1:48pm

Priceless!

 

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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

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