NanoTX'07 - CONGRESSIONAL ENERGY INITIATIVES TO BE FOCUS AT NANOTX’07

Dallas, Texas - Consistent with the allegation and alarm to action fabricated by the acclaimed Energy Summit console at NanoTX’06, one of the world’s better nanotechnology conferences, Congress reportedly is now acting to armamentarium and advanced the commercialization of addition activity sources.

The Washington Post letters that the new Democratic Congress has bedeviled the action with adventurous affairs to be apparent January 18. The address says the amalgamation is absolute and would “plow money into new tax break for renewable activity sources” by rolling aback “billions of dollars account of oil conduct incentives” and “boosting federal royalties paid by oil and gas companies.”

Nanotechnology will play a basic role in analytic the world’s activity problems, as envisioned by nanotechnology pioneer, the backward Dr. Richard Smalley. The Energy Summit at nanoTX’06, hosted by Nobel Laureate Dr. Alan MacDiarmid of the University of Texas, Dallas, fabricated an burning alarm for new, advancing accord amid government, industry and science (see columnist absolution Nov. 2, 2006).

As the third accomplished baronial Democrat on the House Science Committee and as a Member of the House Science Energy Subcommittee, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson of Dallas took a agog absorption in the accident and her board fatigued its access to the new administration in Washington. The committee, beneath her leadership, intends to focus on this affair in the new Congress. Rep. Johnson told reporters “Texas is in a abundant position to advantage oil royalties into forward-thinking ammunition technology research. I will abide to appetite access of an activity technology bill to abate our assurance on deposit fuels.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi corroborated the Washington Post adventure on NPR January 9, adage the amalgamation would crop “about $15 billion” to armamentarium addition sources. Renewable-energy lobbyists told reporters “that would set off a agriculture aberration a allotment of boosters of hydro-power, nuclear, biofuels, geothermal and solar advocates,” absolutely the fields accepting developed added at the Energy Summit during the accessible nanoTX’07 (www.nanotx.biz). As before, those allegation will be aggregate with congress.

“The Democratic activity amalgamation will appearance appulse in two primary areas,” said Peter Balbus, Managing Director of Pragmaxis LLC and Chairman of the NanoTX’07 Energy Summit. “First, it corrects the blank in managing adopted assembly royalties of billions of dollars owed by the oil industry. Second, it directs a allocation of these behind royalties into renewable activity research. This allotment will go a continued way against reasserting US administration in next bearing activity technologies. Oil as a primary ammunition antecedent may not be traveling abroad anytime soon, but it is basic to our abiding aegis and bread-and-butter interests that we see a articular all-embracing activity action appear from Washington. This activity amalgamation will be a cornerstone of that policy.”

Dr. MacDiarmid told reporters afterwards the endure Energy Summit that “clean activity acquired from renewable sources, abnormally agricultural, holds the affiance of badly convalescent the active altitude of billions of humans everywhere.” Panel affiliate Sam Hatcher, CEO of Liberty Holdings, appropriate “the next abundant across of able activity analysis will be biofuels acquired from copse cavity feedstocks.” Balbus agreed with Hatcher, but added that “the aggregation of commonly different science and engineering disciplines—including nanoscience, agriculture, agronomy, botany, actinic engineering, energy,—are creating an aberrant akin of absorption and focus in analytic the world’s activity challenges.”

Presented by the Texas Nanotechnology Initiative (TNI), nanoTX’07 continues the theme: The Promise of Tomorrow—The International Business of Nanotechnology.

According to TNI President Kelly Kordzik, an Austin apparent advocate with Fish & Richardson P.C., nanoTX’07 will draw the top minds in four basic and commutual nanotech areas of commerce: Semiconductor/MEMS/NEMS, Defense/Homeland Security/Aerospace, Biomed/Health Sciences, and Energy/Chemical/Environment, additional accouterment an acute abstraction of Trends/Finance/Investing by arch experts of industry. “There are a lot of humans alive actual harder to accomplish nanoTX'07 the nanotechnology accident of the accomplished quality,” says Kordzik. nanoTX’07 is captivated during International Nanotechnology Week.

The Texas Nanotechnology Initiative is a 501(c)(6) non-profit corporation, a bunch of industry, universities, government and adventure capitalists whose mission is to authorize Texas as a apple baton in the discoveries, development and commercialization of nanotechnology.

Kelly Kordzik
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