The world needs more crazy energy entrepreneurs, said Bill Gates. Well here’s five potentially disruptive but a little out there energy projects spotted at the ARPA-E Summit this week. Read more »
Tune in to a live discussion between Otherlab’s Saul Griffith, IDEO’s Dave Blakely and myself on why creating narratives and telling stories for early-stage energy technologies is important. The talk starts here at 1:30PM PST, 4:30PM EST (live streamed from Washington DC). Read more »
The kind of flat solar mirrors that BrightSource Energy is erecting in California’s Mojave Desert run 7.2 meters by 10.5 meters. The kind that Saul Griffith is working on stretches all 5 centimeter by 5 centimeter and sit on trackers that are no taller than a toothpick. Read more »
If you want to change something, first you have to measure it, and when it comes to energy consumption and generation we don’t have the tools yet to do either. But as Saul Griffith said at Green:Net, we’re still in the dark ages for energy literacy. Read more »
We’re all going to need to become a lot more energy literate if we’re going to fight climate change. Now the DOE has started working on a collaborative Energy Literacy document that will help guide energy education in schools, as well as federal policy and funding. Read more »
