Harry Reid's Energy Summit 4,0 in Las Vegas 8/30/11

Who wowed the crowds at Harry Reid's Energy Summit 4,0 in Las Vegas 8/30/11?

- Governor Christine Gregoire of Washington was very well informed, intense and ready for action. She kind of showed up the boys on either side of her - Governor Brian Sandoval of Nevada and Governor Jerry Brown of California with her no nonsense, lets get busy words.

- Jerry, aiming to keep up with Gregoire's incisiveness, used humor to crack up the crowd with his witticisms on all kinds of things, including tortoises and other problematic California endangered species that have often slowed the state's legal permitting environment to a standstill, leaving California struggling to compete for large high-dollar projects that have gone to Nevada and Arizona, to the dismay of California cleantech advocates who want a balanced approach to leading the green economy while protecting the environment and endangered species in intelligent ways.

- Vice President Joe Biden was similar to Gregoire - very smart, full of well informed details and eloquent about the dangers to America's future.

- Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus, the rock star of cleantech in our military, was eloquent about the big cleantech projects the Navy has already undertaken.

- Best line of the day? That might have come from Chinese CEO Yuseu Wang of the ENN Group, based in Langfan, China, with offices in Las Vegas. After saying that global warming was looking to make Las Vegas alot hotter and eventually put his home town of Langfang under water, Mr Wang said, "Perhaps we should amend your famous President Kennedy's important quote to say, 'Ask not what your planet can do for you, ask what you can do for your planet.'". Well said, Mr Wang.