projects, for example, where you have a solid technology like on who wind technology is very solid, a known technology, a way of financing it so we can deploy these with power purchase agreements low risk. there are other -- so that's one part. there are other parts i think that really could help drive it forward. bloomberg new energy finance just completed a study about a month ago summarizing what happened in 2011 and projections for 2012. they said, if -- and they looked at all forms of energy, new, gas turbines, coal, wind, solar all the way down the line. they said if you have 10% finance, borrowing charges for all these forms of energy, wind today -- and this is wind on a site that's a four site, not a six site. it's a moderate site, within 10% or 15% of the cost of the loss form of energy today which is new gas, and we expect that to improve still further. we also expect solar to be coming down. so this is all good news, but you need a financing mechanism. even at 6%, 8%, 10%, that would really tip the balance. >> do you know -- let me ask on a somewhat different issue. we had

you get update today the next level of technology on a frequent basis. >> host: does technology within the car itself, especially the communications technology we're talking about, does that drive car sales? >> guest: um, it's more and more one important feature customers are looking for. there are a few customers who buy vehicles exclusively because of safety or exclusively because of it look. it's combination, and within this combination this kind of technology becomes more and more important. >> host: dieter zetsche, what's the importance of being at the consumer electronics show as opposed to the auto show? >> guest: well, i think just the combination of the digital world with the automotive world is creating tremendous amount of new opportunities, and you only can understand these opportunities and ultimately realize them as true features for your customers when you are at the cutting edge of technology, and that's what is provided here. that's why we have our research department in palo alto for 16 years, to be at the very early cradle of these new ideas, patents, participating,

you get updated through the next level of technology on a frequent basis. >> the technology within the car itself, especially the communications technology, does that drive cars itself. >> there are a few customers to buy a vehicle because of safety or exclusively because of the combination. this kind of technology becomes more involved. >> what is the importance of being at the consumer electronics show as opposed to the auto show? >> i think it is a combination of the digital world with the automotive world is creating a tremendous amount of new opportunities. you can only understand the opportunities and ultimately realize them as true features for your customers when you are at the cutting edge of technology. that is why we have our research department in palo alto to be at the very early trend along these new ideas. that is why i do believe we are able to lead the automotive world among our peers. >> do you work with partners like google, etc.? >> two years ago we had a cooperation with apple. specific interaction with the iphone where we put access. just these days we have a new

informed by the technology owe quadrennial technology review which we had a hearing on a couple of months ago the department of energy's budget request cuts funding in mature technology areas and provides increased resources for the most promising clean energy innovations. this is an important step towards a national energy policy that invests in critical energy priorities within a framework of a sustainable fiscal policy. the department of energy's budget for the committee today supports a range of cutting-edge technologies that will enable us to lead in the global race for clean energy. increased investment in high performance computing and basic science will increase understanding and spur new energy technology development, continued investments in rpe will support high-risk information energy projects, helping them to mature and attract nongovernmental funding. support for solar and wind and geothermal and biomass energy will develop our portfolio of available energy sources and enable a transition to cleaner technologies. and meanwhile funding for research on carbon capture and seque

it was not technology. they have to use virtualization technology to enable what they are doing, but their innovation was not virtualization. for the old people in the room, ibm did this in 1972, right? their innovation was 12 cents an hour. 12 cents an hour. and transparently. we could go right now and look it up. you can buy it for 12 cents an hour. that ability to sell you -- and they are not the only ones. other people are starting to do this. so transparent, by the way. but that innovation to give you computer for 12 cents an hour. that is a business innovation. they were economically not possible before. let me give you a simple example. some of you may not know this. a couple of years ago, and they may not want to talk about this, but 350,000 people could not file their taxes on tax day. not very good. you may not know this, but the number one day for ecards on the planet is valentine's day. by a long shot. hallmark processes more on valentine's day. this is because you do not send a valentine on feb

there are mea-type technology, chilled technologies. those are being tested and since they're by and large in the commercial sector, we feel that we would like to develop less expensive means, because if you make -- if you put in an estimate how much would increase the electricity bills we think this would not -- would not spur not only the united states but china and india to use these technologies. woe like to improve them. there are potential ways to improve them. one of those ways to put very large high surface areas. we're investing a lot of research to decrease the size of these capture stacks. totally different ways of doing it so instead of it being absorbed in certain material you could use small particular matter. the nan o nano scale. investing in that. another way is to separate nitrogen from oxygen. >> dr. chu, what i would ask, a danger asking somebody who knows about science testify. >> i'll try to suppress it. >> if you're willing, i'll submit a question for the record. a lot of members in the your response both on the s

those technologies are continuing to improve. one doesn't know whether silicon or some other technology. they're certainly a player in that field and they're certainly in a competitive race. so i think to have a hull market for clean energy standard, a protection tax credit, those are mechanisms that can stimulate private sector investment that then stimulates manufacturing in the united states. and this is why, yes, china wants to export, but they also realize that we have to create a home market as well. it's this mixture that they need. >> and you're employing if we don't extend the ptc, that home market missi t bipartisan way that's crucial -- >> well, it's who goes through how do you get a market draw, how do you help bring slightly lower cost financing, all those things. you talk to any supplier of wind, they would rather set up a supply chain in the country where these things are being installed. this is heavy stuff. and so in the solar world, it's more like a commodity that can be shipped worldwide but it's going to be he

we have awareness of technology. so many technological advantages started here. we have to embrace that as a city. so why do we leverage cloud? one, obviously, from an economical position. a second, because we are able to deliver services more quickly. we have a challenge with our staffing and resources, as you mentioned, but we have to embrace that legacy staff. we cannot merely replace them, as you pointed out. we have to embrace that legacy staff and repurchased them in other areas that we can benefit the city better with those folks. so our decision to recently go to a more enterprise version of cloud computing was leveraging e-mail in the crowd -- that was a major decision. ground-breaking decision for the city and county, but one that we feel will better prepare us for the future and better enable us to implement other technologies to help move the city forward and to help lift the technical maturity within the city. that is what we are charged to do. as an i.t. organization within the city, and to your comment earlier, it is something we face everyday, a c

so the utility of this technology is it's very, very fast. >> host: so is this technology on the market? >> guest: so we're taking orders right now. from customers. >> host: such as? >> guest: such as, again, premarely biomedical researchers -- primarily biomedical researchers. we expect to be in full commercial race by the third quarter. >> host: so, dr. scott, how are you funded? is this a venture capitalist type funding? >> guest: oh, no. we are, um, we are listed, we're a public company, so, yeah. so we're -- >> host: life technologies is the name of the company. what's the scientific american that you have up here on your -- >> guest: yeah. so at this booth we were able to have a very, i think, productive partnership with scientific american both in terms of this particular booth, but also this terms of some other wider activities here at the ces meeting. >> host: very quickly, what's your background? >> guest: i'm a chemist, actually a physical chemist, so i've worked a lot in sequencing. i was involved in the human genome project ten years a so my background is chemistry and sequ

about the automobile technology is that it was a technology that generated far more jobs than it replaced ok yes the horse and buggy industry took a hit but you got automobile factories you got gas stations you got auto parts the new technologies that was an historical accident the new technologies may be wonderful but they do not magically generate anything like the number of jobs that they are every placed and in fact the newest technologies the big ten times the johnsons are we not under oath with their arsenal to show off sure sure those jobs ok let me and we're going to know when they come and the new york i want to go back to new york chance please you know we have to have a fair time here and we did you see you see. what we call the middle class in the west recovering i mean what's going to take for the west for the middle class to regain what it's lost over the last three or four decades. in trying to he gains indeed status first through question is the effects of work it's a problem in many countries notably in though your bill western europe and countries of two strong welfare s

technologies. we share of how we use spectrum with respect to usage and there is a reason you can use a fovene from sweden to pakistan to u.s. and it works. it is based on standards. 2g and 4g. however, i deal with the commissioners in every country and talk to them from one country to the other country. it's very normal. we talk about the latest developments and how to use spectrum. >> two of the issues that we worry about here in the united states, the congress, piracy and privacy, what is ericcson doing about those issues? >> you have to be careful. huge massive networks that are going to be used and people get the local developments. you have to remember the benefits. on the other hand, you need to understand the privacy issues and see that people really understand what people are getting into. and the privacy has been the price of wine. it is clear that piracy is not a way to do business. people are investing quite a bit of money and piracy is not fair. we work very hard. we see more and more

riverbed's technology is important, allows technologies to have i.t.nagement from the date of filing to storage, all those wonderful things that technology people will have a much better way to explain and i do. i do suggest to you that this is, yet again, another example of how we are working with ceo's to make sure that we sit down and talk. it was literally last fall that we sat down. we knew they were looking, they knew they were growing. it was not going to be in some other place that we would lose them to. we had some great partners. we just came together very well and focused on what we could do to make sure they stayed here. they know there is talent here. that is not a question. but are there other things that stabilized their ideas come interest to work here long term, and growing here, as we have had that philosophy. we want i.t. companies to stay here and grow. as a result, we are evolving our policies on a weekly basis to continue attracting companies like riverbed, making sure they feel comfortable. the end result is more people get emplo

there are mea type technology or chilled ammonia type technologies. those are being pylon tested. they're by and large in the commercial sector. we feel that we would like to develop less expensive means because if you make -- if you put in an estimate of how much it would increase the electricity bills, we think that this would not -- this would not spur not in the united states, but it would not spur china or india into using these technologies. so we would like to improve them. we think there are potential ways of improving them. one of the potential ways is to -- these are your very large high surface areas. so we're investing a lot of research to decrease the size of these capture stacks. totally different ways of doing it. so instead of that being absorbed in certain material, you can use small particulate matter at the nanoscale. so we're investing a lot of research in that we're investing in ways -- another way is to separate oxygen from nitrogen. >> dr. chu, i guess what i would ask, this is the danger of having someone who actually knows something about science. >> i'll

the utility of this technology is it is very, very fast. >> so is this technology on the market? >> so we're taking orders right now from customers, primarily biomedical researchers. we expect full commercial relief by the third quarter, and we will be delivering by the end of the year. >> is this a venture type type funding? >> no, we are a public company. >> life technologies is the name of the company. what's the scientific american that you have up here? >> we were able to have a productive partnership with scientific american. >> what is your background? >> i'm a chemist, actually a physical chemist, so i work a lot with sequencing. i was involved in the human genome project 10 years ago. my background is sequencing and i've been -- my background is chemistry and i've been in sequencing for about a decade. >> we're here at the consumer electronics show in las vegas. and here is a quality of life technology center. it is a national science foundation engineering research center. joining us now is the director of the quality of life foundry and that is curt stone of carnegie m

que get updated to the next level of technology on a frequent basis. >> does technology within the car itself especially the communications technology we are talking about, does that drive car sales? >> it's more and more one important feature customers are looking for. there are few customers who buy a vehicle exclusively because of safety or explosively because a look at the combination and we're is this kind of technology becomes more and more involved. >> dieter zetsche, what is more and put it be in the consumer electronic show rather than the auto show? >> just a combination of the digital world is creating a tremendous amount of new opportunity, and you only can understand a if you ultimately realize the cutting edge of technology and that is why we have our research department to be a very early trade of the new ideas and participating. that's why i do believe we are able to lead the automotive world among the new tremendous opportunities for the customers. >> do you work with partners such as google etc? >> with cooperation with apple we have specific interaction with the ipho

i think that we share our technologies. we standardize technologies so that's part of the game if you want to use what we have, then you can use it, and then you'll cross license with them, and i think that's a little bit different is that we're sharing in between each other in order to get the lowest cost with the most efficient solutions. we have the same solutions in africa as here in the u.s.. the same technologies is coming out here, but then we can bring down the costs and benefit for the consumers and find what is most important. >> have you been to the consumer electronics show before? what are your impressions of the 2012 show? >> i have to be honest. i've never been to the show before. this is the first time. i have been browsing around, and it's an amazing show i have to say. it really shows the gathering of all the consumer electronics and all application developers in the world, and i think it also shows the power of how fast these developments have come. i see everything, of course, is almost wireless enabled

before i came to city hall, i ran a technology company. like everyone here, we know we have some of the brightest and most innovative individuals, here in san francisco. that being said, when i came into city hall, i was shocked at the fact we are a city with a proximity to silicon valley, yet, while we spend $200 million a year in i.t., we have had seven disparate e-mail systems, three dozen data centers, and winnie the consolidation in technology, but even more importantly, we were not part is in the best and brightest minds here in san francisco. over the past year, i have attended a number of hack-a- thons, and was impressed about the ideas of how to fix muni, making our commercial buildings greener, using vacant spaces, figuring out how to catch cabs. in the last couple of months, i figured out how we can legislate this as part of san francisco. mayor lee had a better idea, which was to partner with code of america to utilize the non- profit and private sector to come together with entrepreneurial minds. i want to figure from conaway

in fact, we created sf city, the citizens' initiative for innovation and technology -- technology and innovation. it is our partnership with technology companies to create job postings and training programs that offer our young and mid-career people an opportunity to get trained in this technology skills that our companies are looking forward to. within one month of announcing that, we have over 100 technology companies that have joined in sf citi. thank you very much for those of you that have done that. we have stronger policy analysis for looking at legislation between the mayor's office and the board of supervisors that will gauge the impact on jobs and for small businesses. we have signaled very strongly that we need to have businesses at our site to evaluate all of the legislation that we do so that we can understand its impact on business. that is the level of commitment that i have made in working with the board of supervisors. i think we have signaled a new way of looking at things. finally, we have invested in the foundations of our city that ensure all of us can live here.

to maximize our energy technology efforts, in areas including batteries, biofuels, electrogrid technologies, recording research and development across our applied research programs. to encourage the manufacturing and employment of clean-energy technologies. the president has called for extending proven tax incentives, including the production tax credit, the 16 l 3 program and the advanced energy manufacturing tax credit. as industry, congress and the american people make critical energy decisions, it's also important that we adequately fund the energy information administration. competing in all the new energy -- competing in the new energy requires american ingenuity. the budget includes $5 billion for the office of science despite bayic rezerjt. these funds for progress and material science, basic energy science and advanced computing and more. the budget request continues to support research centers which aim to solve specific problems to unlock new clean development. it also supports the five existing energy hubs and proposes a new hub in electricity assistance. through the hubs, we're

we understand the battery technology well, we have a battery lab specifically to study the technology and the evolution and improvement we expect over the years. >> i was not trying to ask what you were doing because i know you're doing that, but in fairness, it's catch up. the american automobile companies, including your previous leased automobile, you're playing catch up on all electric cars and even hybrid, and i applaud you for doing it, but from a safety stand point, don't you think if you had to do it over again, you would have been and would have worked to be a little more aggressive in public confidence by doing what you needed to do sooner? in other words, six months of selling a car that could, and turns out would potentially explode and need different safety procedures. didn't we find as a country that you shouldn't have kept selling this relatively new car the way you were? >> the battery, as you know, is well used throughout the industry. .. any customer when you have a where from seven to 21 days to remove yourself from the car if there is an accident. after 25 billion

fixing technology more efficient. it continues adequate support, adequate spending for the cleanup site in washington state which is through the environmental management program. i want to work with the energy department to make sure cleanup succeeds at reasonable cost to the taxpayer. i must express my disappointment this budget continues to reflect the administration's decision to shut down the yucca mountain project. it is my opinion the decision congress made in the 1980s to use yucca as our national nuclear waste repository is still the law land. i want to welcome secretary chu to the committee and look forward to your statement. >> mr. secretary, thank you for being with us. we welcome your remarks. your entire statement will be in the record. [inaudible] >> is that better? ranking member visclosky and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss the f y 13 budget request. to promote economic growth, strengthen our security president obama has called for an all of the above strategy about e

zetsche what is the technology technology orange adducing? >> guest: they are showing here the latest connectivity and the cars. we have on the one hand future directions we will take with the so-called -- and all the different aspects of connectivity, the social network, navigation, all kinds in this regard. on the other hand, we have stuff which is available right now. right behind me will come with -- which is already starting now offer our mercedes customers here in the united states the combination of many services between again navigation. there are all kinds of communication and information as well as excellent emergency support. they are all in one package and they are all in this car. >> dr. zetsche if someone had a new mercedes would they be able to surf the internet, made the phonecall, turn on their lights at home etc. and that's a bit good thing? >> guest: absolutely. you can surf the internet. what is special for us is that we connect through a private internet connection. we want that as is in access for you and everybody in yo

it is not just technology and packing technology. it is more about getting a bunch of people, in a diverse community together, with people who have needs. in this case, the city. we have issues and challenges we face, and caring people who are problem-solving oriented. if we tear those two groups of people together, some amazing things have come up. we have had that over five and a people over this past year -- 500 people over the past year, over 10,000 hours of civic engagement, and nearly 30 application that have been developed. code for america, what they are doing, is taking it to the next level, where we take these ideas and substantiate new business, and drive job growth, and disrupt government. you have seen a transformation in the consumer space. we have not seen a transformation in government. there is no reason why we cannot do that. >> problem solving. what is on the top of your priority list? how this code of america going to help you in that? >> we have got a lot of problems, obviously. they get worse every time i listen

if you look at advanced technology products, to try to balance between what we import in advanced technologies and what we export, you find that about 2002, 2001, we went negative. we started importing more high-technology goods than exporting, and this is not good. not only is it not good for a lot of reasons, but it's mostly not good, because more than anywhere else, we believe that the united states can compete in advanced technology manufacturing, and so our budget reflects that. it asks for $290 million for advanced manufacturing office to support r&d on materials and processes, to help manufacturers cut costs. so this is not some stuff 20 years out in the future. we are talking about things that actually can help manufacturers in their factories produce, for example, advanced steels, alloys, lightweight materials, all sorts of things that could help our competitive edge. manufacturing also supports through the does, there's additional manufacturing. this is specifically tied to advanced manufacturing. but if you look within our energy programs, within rpe, and in little bits and pieces i

>> the technology that we have -- well, no, there's technology that exists today that has challenges come all the ones i just described, and including july descendant described such as false positives. >> could you answer for the record and in writing the third question that i have about the shreveport situation and what you know about it and whether you think you're going to get involved in that. thank you, madame chair. islamic thank the gentlelady and now recognize mr. brown from georgia. >> thank you, chairman. this hearing as well as many as a point about something i've long said here in this committee that is that the department of homeland security has a totally wrong. we are spending billions of dollars and wasting billions of dollars looking for object instead of looking for those who want to harm us. we would be much better off as a nation from a much more secure as a nation if we would spend the money and human intelligence focusing on those who want to harm us. we have to stop patting down by ground ma and children and start looking at airports for those who want to do us

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. >> in addition, we know the technology may adapt over time. it may be that the system can handle the requirements, but from my understanding, there were federal specifications on the systems the main the mission critical component not possible yet. >> there are federal and international standards, so what we anticipate happening in 5 to 10 years, know they are working on it now -- is a device similar to this that could have to push to talk capabilities. it does not exist right now, but we believe in the future it will cure a good -- it will. it will have to meet new standards that have not been developed. at this point is our anticipation that at some point the systems will merge, but that i fis 10 or 15 years out. we are building infrastructure, and we need public safety department to be able to do the critical mission on 800 mhz right now until the new technology is available. >> thank you. >> i will be very brief. i want to spend a little time talking about the budget. we have been working over the last week with our other city partners and

testing the newest technology to see how. specially interested in testing this heat real world conditions we also want to find out how much. the house will consume compare the results to the hypothetical figures that came up with during the planning phase we'll see. good news is that despite a pretty bitter cold snap in february the test family made it through completely unscathed in addition to the generally good atmosphere the house has created the ground source pumps provided heat to keep them and. toasty and there's certainly no . small feat considering the spacious interior and high high ceilings of the building. it's always. and if the temperature does drop one can adjust it manually this heat pump ian it is powerful enough to keep the space and. just everywhere up stairs and downstairs. and as far as i understand it in county weather the solar panel doesn't produce energy but this power connector still takes care of by stating and conditioning it feels just like summer time. but all this hasn't come cheap especially gi

technology and innovations enjoy. hello and welcome to technology update this month we're taking a look at a topic that hits well close to home in russia many innovations in terms of new building materials have come from the country's tiny tech leader. and at an exhibition in moscow recently the company showed off its latest offerings from its aptly named nano house. here you can find many of the newest developments all containing you guessed it the prefix nano the state owned company has selected a number of projects that it takes have the best potential to revolutionize homebuilding in the future you know all of the ideas to make we reside more livable but the overriding theme definitely seems to be energy efficiency which will benefit not only the individual homeowners but the whole earth as well you know this is just a simple exhibition but it design and consulting firm e-com has planned a full scale model complete with all the high tech developments. and that will eventually get built in russia's republic some se

the technology exists. so it comes down to the probability that a bad guy could go and guess relocation. in amazon web services, you have more than 3.5 billion objects. they have to know which one to go for it here that have to break your access. then they have to break the description on the of jets. the probability of stealing your data and getting away with an attack is vanishingly small. >> i think you address one of my concerns, which was the security of my data out on the cloud, but you raised a new question -- who owns my data? what if i do want it to go away? >> there are very challenging concerns. certainly, governed by state boundaries. for example, numerous canadians do not want their data in american dissenters. under a land the vessels, that can be subject to inspection and seizure. all the regulations relate to national boundaries there as well. a cloud providers actually end up having to meet numerous diverse regulatory requirements related to where data may resign and how it may be encrypted

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it's an amazing technology. in the spring of 2010, the department of energy promised the company it would receive a $72 million loan guarantee under the 1703 program to build a new manufacturing facility that would create 160 manufacturing jobs and 200 construction jobs in southern minnesota. it's now been two years since sage has been notified that it will receive the loan guarantee and the deal has not yet been closed. while the department of energy prolongs closing the deal, time and money are running out for sage. there are high-tech manufacturing construction jobs at stake here. it's been going forward with the project assuming they'd get this loan guarantee. but they're running out of time. they may have to sell themselves to a french company. my first is the sage loan guarantee was going to be submitted to the credit committee on august 23rd, but it was stopped. why is the department of energy continuing to delay closing and executing the sage loan guarantee? >> senator, as you know, first, yes, i'm very