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World Energy Conference 2007
How To Change The World From Just 10 Meters Of Space
The GENI exhibit sits in the far corner of the WEC
Renewables Hall. We are across from a huge solar
array and electric powered scooters. While some
exhibitors have built small houses to showcase there
companies, GENI has designed a multimedia "theater"
for guests to view the GENI Visualization we are developing
with the SDSU Visualization Lab. This 12 minute movie
begins with the spinning earth in the Earth at Night
lighted mode, and travels through each continent featuring
layers of population density, transmission grids,
and renewable potentials of solar, wind and biomass.
It grabs peoples' attention from around the world.
Today we had guests from the World Bank, the Indian
energy sector, World Petroleum Congress, Ministers
from Cameroon and Japan, Youth Forum delegates
from the Czech Republic, Lithuania, and Romania.
We can tell our story one person at a time,
and change the world a bit with each conversation.
I think the most telling comment was from one
delegate who said "there's no one else here asking
these kind of questions like you are."
The keynote presentation was Jose Barroso of
the European Commission, who powerfully stated that climate
change is the challenge of our time. Three years
ago at the WEC in Sydney, that issue was still
being debated. No longer. All companies
and delegates are aware and in some agreement that
change is happening. GENI is doing all
we can to affect that change.
Peter Meisen
P.S. Visit GENI in Hall 4 Exhibit F32 if you'd like
to stop by... We're on page one, in the upper right
corner on this site plan tp://www.rome2007.it/Expo/Download/Floor_Plans.pdf.
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