Alexander A. Karsner
Alexander Karsner (born April 5, 1967) is an American Entrepreneur, technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and policymaker, energy and environmental policymaker. Karsner was most recently Managing Partner at Emerson Collective, where he founded and led Elemental, its environmental practice. He is a Senior Strategist and Space Cowboy at X (company), X and a Precourt Energy Scholar at Stanford University. From 2006 to 2008, Karsner served in the United States Department of Energy as Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.Whitehouse.gov Archives, https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/government/karsner-bio.html In 2021 it made headlines when he was elected to the ExxonMobil Board of DirectorsWashington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/06/19/exxon-board-karsner-engine1/ as one of the first environment-friendly board members of this Big Oil company. Early life and education Karsner was born on George Air Force Base in ...
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Victorville, California
Victorville is a city in Victor Valley in San Bernardino County, California. Its population as of the 2020 census was 134,810. History In 1858, Aaron G. Lane came to what is now known as Victorville and founded a waystation called "Lane's Crossing." For many years it provided shelter and supplies for people journeying across the desert from the east to San Bernardino. Lane's Crossing was on the Mojave River on today's Turner Road, two miles north of where Interstate 15 crosses the river. Lane was a veteran of the Mexican–American War who had had malaria during that war. Originally he migrated west to join the California gold rush, but he learned that he could make a better living selling supplies to the miners. Lane settled in Ione, near Sutter's Mill in northern California, during those years, but migrated to San Bernardino in 1857. He settled on the Mojave River in 1858, where he established his waystation. He later sold out to Texan John Fry Miller, who changed the nam ...
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