S. David Freeman
S. David Freeman (born January 14, 1926)[1] is an American engineer, attorney, and author, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, who has had many key roles in energy policy. He currently heads The Hydrogen Car Company and is a member of the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners.
Freeman has been termed an "eco-pioneer" for his environmental friendly leadership of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD).[2] He had done a similar job at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), after President Jimmy Carter appointed him to head the TVA board in 1977, changing the TVA focus from growth to conservation. Mr. Freeman decided to stop construction on several nuclear projects that may have contributed to several rate increases with TVA.[3] He also headed other major energy organizations, including the New York Power Authority and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP).
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[edit] Books
Freeman has authored several books, including Energy: The New Era (1974) and Winning Our Energy Independence (2007). Other books that contain his works include Oral history of the Tennessee Valley Authority: Interview with S. David Freeman, March 30, 1984 and Speeches by S. David Freeman (1997).
[edit] Winning Our Energy Independence
In Winning Our Energy Independence, S. David Freeman says we have the renewable energy we need to wean ourselves from the Three Poisons: foreign oil, dirty coal and dangerous nuclear power.
| “ | I say this based on my experience as the former head of the TVA, which bought and burned more than 30 million tons of coal a year. I was deeply involved in the strip mining, underground mining, trucking, and most importantly, the burning of huge quantities of coal. No one who has been deeply involved with coal can rightfully say it is clean | ” |
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—S. David Freeman in "Winning Our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How" |
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- ^ http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=7827
- ^ Steve Lerner (1998). Eco-Pioneers: Practical Visionaries Solving Today's Environmental Problems. MIT Press. ISBN 026262124X. http://books.google.com/books?id=XCUXig07qcgC&pg=PA91&ots=CbsrWfVJoG&dq=%22S+David+Freeman%22&as_brr=3&sig=AptWB2veLFLjcbVxofmRhPRKmwM.
- ^ Richard F. Hirsh (2003). Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521524717. http://books.google.com/books?id=N8sqNGiMOskC&pg=PA156&ots=OCX27nef8B&dq=%22S+David+Freeman%22+carter&as_brr=3&sig=EP55h8rgYeBIDwjXlxyfknFhAEk#PPA156,M1.
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