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When the topic in question is energy, Edward Glab is ready to speak.
Glab, a professor in the School of International and Public Affairs and the director of the Global Energy Outlook, which was inaugurated in 2003, is hosting the annual Global Energy Outlook Forum to 2040 in February.
According to Glab, one of the results behind the event is that the government uses these outlooks to invest and prepare to deal with changes in energy supply, thus leading to the generation of useful energy policies.
These outlooks provide an opportunity to draft overall deals for private sector organizations to establish business plans. They explore the global energy context within which the world will implement new energy policies and measures to address global warming.
Having worked for over 25 years as an energy executive, Glab has also worked over 10 years as an energy consultant and professor, teaching and leading the Global Energy Security Forum at the School of International and Public Affairs.
Other experts in energy usage will also be at the event.
Among them is Nick Jones, energy advisor in ExxonMobil’s Corporate Strategic Planning department. Jones will serve as a guest speaker, addressing the importance of energy usage and its applications within the corporate and higher educational realms — such as the one to which the University belongs.
Working in the planning department of energy usage, Jones will be presenting on the topic of global energy and will discuss possible outcomes for petroleum and natural gas usage.
He will also present to those in attendance various forms of energy producers like hydraulic factories, nuclear factories and solar panels, among others, and will draw on the importance of these energy producers and their influence over the coming 25 years.
Glab believes that students should take advantage of the event.
He stressed the notion that energy is all around us and it is vital to focus on the best way to spend it and keep it for a very long time.
Some students agreed.
“Energy conservation is relevant to students because we have a limited amount of non-renewable resources,” said Jose Maldonado, a sophomore computer science major. “One must also consider the impact that energy usage has on global warming.”
Energy usage can encompass anything from using oil to electricity, but one of the most important forms is the use of chemical energy for agriculture production.
According to Glab, it’s important to teach students about this particular topic, especially the dangers of overuse and the direction in which energy is going.
Glab also cited the importance of generating change to use more biofuels, solar power and wind power, which will lead students to not use a carbon footprint.
Rather than have the lecture be strictly political, focusing on climate change and the current circumstance to produce better policies for the long run, Glab wants to generate a discussion that will engage the public.
The event will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015 in the MARC Pavillion at the Modesto A. Maidique Campus, and will run from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Those interested in attending must register. To RSVP, call 305-348-7266 or go to http://energyforum.fiu.edu/events/.
According to Glab, it is important that people focus on the best way to spend energy.
“Energy is life,” Glab said. “Without energy, there is no life.”
Additional reporting was conducted by Adrian Suarez Avila and Nicole Montero.
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