even at 100% grenoble, it is not much lower than 40%. there are geographic differences in responses of the residents that we spoke with. and while we don't have a large enough sample of interviews to look at individuals the coats, we were able to divide the city into rough quadrants. northwest, southwest, northeast, southeast. the table to the right shows the proportion that would be interested in the 100% renewable energy scenario in each of these areas of the city. the highest level of interest is what we have defined as the northeast quadrant that runs from everything north of market in the northeast corner of the city down to the valley. that support drops a little bit in the southeast quadrant in the northwest quadrant. slightly less than one-third indicate they would opt for 100% renewable package. finally, in order to understand the way that some of the customers might react to some of the arguments for and against the clean power program, we presented them with some of the major things that supporters and opponents might say. aft

president vietor: some kind of distributed generation of around grenoble's, the local build up, that would be great. if we could make an informed decision. if that makes sense. thank you. >> coming back to the storm drain. the whole system will be replaced. the gravity system, the initial construction. we are working through some of the details with staff now on those systems, and the intent is we will of all on-site treatment before we go into the bay. chris is here to run through the treatment strategy. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i would like to start by noting that puc is the city agency responsible for meeting the state regulatory requirements for water quality control in the bay, and this project is unique in the opportunity we have to really integrate the way we deal with storm water management and integrate it with both infrastructure planning and the open face and open design. we have been able to do that throughout the process. there are a couple of key points. the idea that the system be flexible and allow for potential changes under state regulations, said the islan

since nuclear power produces 70% of their carbon-free electricity and green -- and other grenoble's produce a few percent, why should nuclear power have to pay for its loan guarantee subsidies and wind and solar nothing? >> the reasoning was that nuclear power was the more mature technology. fossil fuel also has to pay for the credit subsidies. the nuclear loans actually should get lower credit subsidy scores. the one we did do with southern and others had a pretty modest subsidy. because it was a more mature technology -- now things have changed. >> didn't you just testified that wind is a mature technology? >> yes, it is a mature technology and if we are going to fund -- it is a mature technology in the sense that if we are going to fund research and development, we would rather fund research and development in the deeper offshore wind that i am all for that research and development. >> if wind is a mature technology and produces a puny amount of intermittent power, why are you giving it in addition to paying for its loan guarantees and not pay for nuclear power loan guarantees? as if we

company did disagree with the statements, they said the company as a leader in generating are mentally grenoblend natural power. if you'd like to check out more details his visit www.kron4.com and look for new sleek section. >>pam:a programming note, this saturday kron will air nbc programming while the giants air on nbc. chase will be shown at 8:00 p.m. and followed by the kron 4 news at 9:00. we'll be right back. >>now, here is gabe slate, with some tech news. >>gabe: if you're about to buy nintendo wii don't wait until may 15th. nintendo is dropping the price of the week from $200 down to $150. the point to throw in mario kart for free when you buy the wheat after may 15th. they're doing this because they're coming out with the new consol next year and the deal will help them move inventory. in other news, santa clara based intel had a press conference today announced a major breakthrough in computer chip development. they committed a new kind of computer chip that will make future computers and other devices faster, smaller, cheaper and more environmentally friendly. anything that uses inte

we need to get into grenoble's. as far as the flooding and -- we need to get into renewables. as far as the flooding, we need to use wind power and solar to pump the if floodwaters in the nation to the drought areas in the nation or into holding tanks. water will also be a source we will need in the future that will be depleted. we have to start saving our water and redirecting our the floods go out and putting them into drought areas. that is a job that could be done that is a shovel-ready pretty much. we have to start working on renewable energy because oil will not last forever. host: 1 the were saying real words were the 19th century technology, how about we look to the future? john joining us from florida. good morning and welcome to the conversation. caller: thank you for c-span. what people are calling in and demonizing the oil companies, you know, and they felt like they were stealing from americans, but we have to remember that big oil companies have been exploiting other countries for years. whether it is ethiopia, the middle east, even in south america and they have