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17 October 2015

Images from Brian Schweitzer’s Power Up press conference

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Former governor Brian Schweitzer held a plein air press conference in Whitefish yesterday, explaining and promoting his new book, Power Up.energy. Always a master showman, he was in vintage form, delivering an almost hour-long explanation of his book, then taking questions. Sam Wilson has an excellent report at the InterLake. Today, Schweitzer held a book signing at the same location.

Power Up.energy is both a plea for energy independence, for not spending our blood and treasure on Arab oil, on conflict oil, and a broad brushed road map for getting there. It’s a slim volume, somewhere between a short book and a long monograph, that Schweitzer hopes will ignite a conversation on energy production and conservation. Do I agree with everything I’ve read in it thus far? No. Do I agree with a lot of what he says? Yes — and I find his ideas on using battery storage for load shifting and peak shaving of considerable interest. I’ll have a full review after thoroughly studying the book.

Meanwhile, here are a few photographs from the press conference. I also have some video, but have yet to review it for suitability for publication.

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