announcer: the president revving up and wisconsin, home state of house speaker paul ryan, who was not present today. the washington post reporting is meetinger ryan with leaders of key nato allies. it will be the second foreign trip that speaker ryan has made as speaker along with his visit to israel a year ago. you can read the rest of that story in "the washington post" today. come not tonight on seized -- coming up on c-span tonight -- served as an obama health care advisor has authored the for thescription future. he talks about health insurance costs in the united states and here is a little of what you will see tonight.

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winner is from wyoming. she believes transitioning to clean energy is an urgent issue in her documentary. take a look. every day starts with the use of energy. whether it is a long clocks, turning on your light, heating, air conditioning, or driving to work. since the industrial revolution, fossil fuels have provided cheap and abundant energy that boosts economic development. >> it allows us to have taxes. it allows us to do incredible things in terms of funding our university, community college, our road systems. that has been an absolute wonderful benefit to the state of wyoming. >> but there are downsides to fully relying on a single source of revenue. >> they go down.

therefore, the bad thing is is quite inconsistent. >> the fluctuating prices of social -- fossil fuels have led to the university of wyoming facing parse -- harsh budget cuts. ,> but other people in wyoming those places that are very locally dependent on coal and natural gas, they are devastated. those towns are completely devastated. that should not be taken lightly by politicians. i also don't think that trying to protect a technology that is fading is a way to fix that. >> wyoming has other potential energy forces -- resources. we have the best onshore wind in the continental united states.

there is a great opportunity for wind development. >> wyoming is also a tremendous source for solar, which has gotten unbelievably inexpensive. >> i also think there is a great opportunity as we figure out stored solutions for increased use of nuclear power. >> not only wyoming, but our nation and the world at large would greatly benefit from transitioning from sustainable, renewable energy sources. >> we will have to find other things such as renewable energy. maybe this will help put some of our workers back to work. >> there are several challenges associated with renewables. >> with the wind, you have to get the energy source out of wyoming. therefore you need transition lines, you need a way to have it reach other centers of the united states that desperately are looking for energy. >> all technologies have -- >> it is transitioning from an

industry -- it is going to take more than a generation. this problem will affect us within a generation. carbon.nerates , there is no perfect solution. when there is no perfect solution, you look for the good. and the good is going to be a diverse energy supply that encompasses many of these things. >> what should our new president do? >> the states where they are doing that are getting less dependent on fossil fuels. we need their support and their ideas how to help us through the transition. >> if there was a carbon test, electricity generated from natural gas or other fossil fuels. it wouldn't be as cheap.

maybe more people would buy wind. >> don't rely solely on renewables. don't rely solely on conventional's. get a program in place where you will actually be to open both. you also want enough of that energy to make sure the prices remain so most people can afford to fill their car with gas. it's just as important to have reasonably priced energy as a consistent source of energy. you can't just cut off fossil fuels. you would be cutting off approximately 80% of energy supply. >> a better approach is to seek ways to allow us to use the abundant resource we have and at the same time reduce or eliminate any negative effect. as a nation we should support the innovation of new technologies that will make energy production and facilities cleaner and will improve energy efficiency in our homes and businesses, and will help us find innovative, new ways to produce the energy that powers our daily lives.

>> change the equation from, this is viewed as a liability, to how to turn it into an asset. energy efficiency >> -- if we achieve the energy officiates the levels of the japanese it would take the world 25% of the way home to reducing greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050. >> we want to keep our environmental and air standards up so we are not hurting arcades -- our kids. >> over one billion people live in energy policy -- poverty that don't have access to refrigeration, medicine, light. we need all energy sources. >> if you just say now we are going to replace all the fossil fuels with renewables, we're still not meeting the energy needs of the planet. that should be the goal.

how we add to the energy table rather than taken away. >> that actually came out of the international energy agency's world energy outlook 2008. this quote says the world energy system is at a crossroads. current global trends in energy supply and consumption are patently unsustainable. environmentally, economically, or socially. >> energy is like a big shipment. when you navigate those ships down the mississippi river, when you turn, you have to turn before you were in the turn. you are looking well before you are in the turn. the only challenge we face right now is we are already in the turn. >> fossil fuels are doing young resources and continuous use is unsustainable. demand,he exponential volatile prices and environmental and health concerns, we have no choice but

to transition to alternative sources of energy. we might as well start now. to watch all the prize-winning documentaries in this year's competition visit studentcam.org. announcer: supreme court justice sonia sotomayor spoke about the importance of education to law students at stanford university. she shared her experiences of her early legal career, her education at princeton and yale university, and growing up in poverty at dierks city. this is about one hour and 50 minutes. -- poverty in new york city. this is about one hour and 15 minutes. [applause]