Putin did this in georgia. He did it in moldova. That went for those who want to look west ward. I think for so long as you do not have offensive weapons along what is the Eastern Europe part assigned to europe, then russia is in a position, if you put offensive weapons, that changes the dynamics for russia. If all youre talking about is a defensive possibility, im not quite sure why that evokes, you know, putins actions. And well before any discussion of nato, the conversation was about ukraine looking towards European Union session more than nato. And i think for putin and his eurasia view, and new russia view. Ukraine is an essential element of that. It is not about defense or concerns. And without ukraine it is difficult to envision the type of new russia. So i dont think it was a mistake to enter into those negotiations. And i dont know which one of us is willing to suppress the aspirations for the same freedoms we enjoy in the United States. Senator menendez, im watching changing
Viable in the philippines. Again, human behavior. Its taken them ten years to pass the Renewable Energy act. Its taken them another five years. Human behavior effects this. And i think theres a lot of opportunities where asia can do better. Biofuels, and i call this more efficient use of coal. When i was in charge of the clean energy program, i got hammered i used to get hammered all the time by grease peace, because it was called the asian dams and bridges bank and we finance a lot of coal, they say its changed. But they use to hammer us all the time and say, no, you cant use clean coal because youre whitewashing the problem. Theres no such thing as clean coal. Coal is dirty. And so we in the peace treaty we decided that whenever we talk about clean coal, supposed to call it more efficient use of coal. When i say more efficient use of coal, i mean ccs. And we have some funding from the ccs institute. And weve been working in india, china, vietnam and chio on the for ccs. And weve been
Utility partners in building more gas but still worried about those price shocks and they see keeping coal in the mix is one of the ways that they can avoid those kinds of shocks as part of what they do. Last thing i will say, of course, is thats the United States story. In other countries, coal is much more prevalent and the availability of gas much more limited. So, from a global perspective, we certainly see coal as an important player, not just in the United States or not just in north america but many parts of the world. Hi, Charles Ebinger from brookings. Julio, it seems to an outsider that the administration a bit schizophrenic on ccs and coal, in general, because the one hand, we have the excellent would, that you have highlighted the doe is doing, the other hand, we look at the organizations like opec, xn bank, so forth, as well as our positions in financial institutions, we seem to take a very negative attitude toward financing coal in other localities. Could you make a comme
Everybody. Things likes showcase projects for example in this country or in others. Also International Partnerships can accelerate the learning, sharing. Can accelerate deployment. We dont have to build five kinds of plants in five Different Countries if we can just build one plant in one country and share the results, it saves money and saves time in a very useful way. The International Landscape is also changing dramatically. Im sure many of you here watched the u. S. china accord that was announced in november. We were all very, very pleased with this. It includes, among other things, a large ccs project in china and a science project that is a joint International Project shared by the United States, china, and other nations. Were thrilled with this outcome. Theres also a new kind of project that the chinese are going to pilot, an enhanced Water Recovery project. Like enhanced oil recovery except pulling out oil you pull out brines and you use the pressure youre using in injection t
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