westinghouse won the contract for the chicago fair in the 1990s. a.c. every since. but not everyone in america had electricity. suburbs did, the but the farms did not. and so one of the things that -- farms in 800,000 america that had no electricity, which in the wintertime in is beingr when the ice melted, the cattle being milkled. and so forth hts to do it without electricity in amount of farming that was needed to satisfy the needs of retched ation, it was for american farmers. things that roosevelt did when he came into fire is to set up the rea, the electrify occasion administration. and farms were steadily illuminated. irony i wanted to mention to you is that the first farms ever the inated thanks to efforts of roosevelt's new deal nd big, big government was in westin, ohio, specifically a whatcalled miami, ohio, in is now the eighth congressional district of ohio. and the eighth congressional is, today, the constituency of john boehner. john boehner, the archetype of anti-big government, his benefitted hugely from the biggest government that america has ever

we have through westinghouse, three quarters of a new collar technolo technology i haven't begun to talkut the steelers, the pie rats and the penguins. this was the story that was moving me in pits fwurg. as a resident of pittsburgh, i directly as we have responded to the challenges as we changed to a industrial community and what a factor cyber intrusion. . . it's about people in brati iic people who might lose their job who's might face economic distress because whether you're talking about capturing the research development our companies make which is when we have ip space sponsored espionage. or folks who are most vulnerable among us seniors and children who either have their retirement stolen or are skploeted onliexp. this really matter. this really matters. i'm very grateful to partner with all of you. i'm here to assure you that as grave that's threat is over the course of the last four and half years i've been heartened by the great talent and commitment and will of the people who are working on it. and that now includes all of you. thank you very much for attending today. look f

since thomas edison started making electricity, although he took direct current and westinghouse one with the alternating current told that he was boiling water to create electricity. we have known how to do it for a long time. we are just getting a hell of a lot better at it. i think that is what is going to happen with that. commercial scale is like one that is running on a full power plan, commercially viable means that there is an economic model associated with the fact that we can do it. that commercial scale is what people are now doing, the other ones that are up on the chart. but chart. but commercially viable is still not their because there is not enough revenue. i will stop their. >> i will i will just say i agree with the differentiation. the acronyms, if you will, that we use here are not descriptive of what we're trying to accomplish. the idea of commercial scale technology development, technology demonstration versus commercially viable. these systems are not yet commercially viable. we don't have a template here that would allow us to competently say that we can build

we have through westinghouse and others the -- three-quarters of the nuclear technology in this company. i haven't seen begun to talk about the steelers, the pirates and the penguins. you need to understand that this story can be told about any city in the country. but this was the story that was moving me in pittsburgh. because as a resident of pittsburgh and as a person from western pennsylvania, i have seen directly as we have responded to the challenges as we changed ourself from a rust belt city to an industrial company. and what a factor cyber intrusions was to us. and it wasn't about us and law academics who work on this problem or the judiciary or the private sector partners or the great companies who have forged this new frontier in the internet like google and microsoft and others. it's about people in mckeesport in our valley who might lose their jobs, who might face economic distress because whether you are talking about recapturing the research development investment that our companies make which is stolen when we have ip state sponsored espionage or you talk about folks wh