Xprize and MIT hosting energy forum
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California-based X Prize Foundation are hosting a forum Sept. 10 on alternative energy sources that will be videotaped and distributed to the two presidential candidates.
The forum, "Seeking Radical Breakthroughs in Alternative Energy - What I Would Advise the Next President," will be held at the MIT campus at 4:30 p.m. Leading thinkers in the alternative energy sector will speak to faculty members, students, industry experts and members of the media.
Video of the event will be packaged and given to Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain. It will also be available on the X Prize YouTube channel, www. youtube.com/xprize.
Speakers at the two-hour event include futurist Dr. Ray Kurzweil, biologist Dr. George Church, inventor Dr. Saul Griffith, and X PRIZE Foundation chairman and chief executive officer Dr. Peter Diamandis.
The X Prize Foundation, an educational non-profit that sponsors competitions with $10 million in prizes, will also announce a new partner in the energy and environment sector.
(By Angel Jennings, Globe correspondent)
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