Meet The Future Hosts Energy Powered Power Breakfast
- Dec 6, 2025
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WASHINGTON / December 5, 2025 / BPALiveWire - A standing-room-only crowd of current and former Energy Department officials, DARPA leaders, national security figures, senior executives from major U.S. energy companies, technologists, researchers and reporters from Reuters, NPR, the Washington Examiner and BPALiveWire filled the National Press Club earlier this week for mtf.tv’s Meet the Future power breakfast.
Hosted by mtf.tv founder Kevin Cirilli and producer Holly Page, the event featured former Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette and Tala Goudarzi who served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Fossil Energy.
Brouillette warned that the United States is losing a global race to build the energy backbone of the next economy while China sprints ahead. Brouillette also told Cirilli that China builds industrial power hubs in the time it takes the U.S. to hold a scoping meeting, constructs nuclear reactors on roughly five-year timelines versus more than 20 years in America and deploys transmission lines at national-strategic speed.
He called U.S. permitting a national-security vulnerability, noting it takes seven to 10 years to permit one transmission line, longer than America needed to win World War II.
Alloy Partners principal Tala Goudarzi told the audience that LNG has become a geopolitical weapon and China already controls critical-minerals pricing.
Brouillette closed by predicting America will be powered by fusion by its 500th birthday in 2276 if the country wins the next 20 years of energy competition.
