Some exciting energy club events coming up....

After the annual blow out that is the MIT Energy Conference this past weekend, maybe now you want to keep up with the energy community at MIT. Here's a link to the upcoming talks and discussions which the MIT Energy Club is putting on. Also, you can sign up as a community member on the front page and get weekly emails with updates of energy events in the Boston/Cambridge area.

http://www.mitenergyclub.org/events-and-programs/lecture-series

Good stuff at MIT E Center: Clean tech in New England list and CEO reception

I recently stumbled upon a great list of many, if not all, of the clean tech companies in New England, put together by the great people at the MIT Entrepreneurship Center.

http://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/Energy/companies.php

The E Center also put on a reception for entrepreneurs, exec's, VC's, etc in the community a few weeks ago ("CEO Networking Reception") which was a great opportunity to talk with some of the more interesting folks in the area. I went to it as part of my excellent 15.396 Energy Ventures class with Bill Aulet and Tod Hynes. The reception happens every semester, so keep an eye out next time!

http://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/events.php

The quotable MIT Sloan professor....

"Selling to engineers is like being nibbled to death by ducks" - Prof. Ken Morse in 15.387 Technology Sales and Sales Management

Comparing Gore's talk to Presidential-surrogate Energy debate at MIT

I am glad that the Presidential-surrogate Energy debate at MIT a couple weeks ago (another fun event to attend, but this one put on by the MIT Energy Club) was done by Woolsey and Grumet (representing McCain and Obama, respectively). They both have a really good handle on what needs to be done to move things in the right direction energy-wise, within the realm of the possible and politically feasible, which Gore didn't seem to embrace as strongly. I am looking forward to having one of them be advisors to the white house. Too bad McCain would probably ignore most of the good ideas that Woolsey puts forward, based on his voting record. Obama seems to buy into what Grument had to say though. Here's hoping this works out for the good.

If you'd like to see the debate yourself, it's posted on TechTV:

http://techtv.mit.edu/file/1423