CASI hosts a major live national energy panel event to explore the mistakes that California and the nation have made, with intensive scientific analysis that could lead us to find directions for our electricity production that can improve environmental outcomes as well as lead to better economic consequences. Germany, the UK and the USA have all engaged in strategies over the last several years that have led to rapidly rising electricity costs, along with sub-optimal environmental outcomes for sulfur dioxide emissions, water pollution results, as well as unnecessary harm to forests, deserts, birdlife and marine biota.
Our CASI panel program has been designed by national experts in wind, solar, nuclear and natural gas plants as well as grid operations and environmental impact analysis as well as economics. Participating in the program design are moderator Dr. David Henderson, Hoover Institute Fellow and US Presidential Advisor; Joe Curl, with experience as a chief operator of the Western USA electrical grid; Dr. Gene Nelson, radiation biophysicist; Dr. Dan Nussbaum, NPS Energy Academic Group; Dr. C. Michael Hogan, atmospheric physicist and US Presidential Advisor; Dr. Francois Melese, key NATO policy leader; Jim Strickland, policy systems analyst; and Dr. Robert Campbell, small nuclear reactor plant developer.
The panel will reveal true operating costs and environmental outcomes of wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, nuclear, natural gas, solar and coal technologies. We shall also give insights into the mix of power sources that are conducive to most cost effective and reliable grid operations. But we shall also give detailed insights to actual consequences of toxic air and water pollutants that are associated with each technology, as well as the flora and fauna impacts of each. You will find some of the results surprising, both as to the economic as well as the environmental impacts.