by frog
Another great TED link sent to me from Nigel:
Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab, talks about his life as an inventor, starting with his high-school company selling solar energy plans and kits. Learn here about a groundbreaking system for solar cells — and some questions we haven’t yet solved.
I shall try and find out where he is at with this, as this recording is a few years old now. Brilliant stuff. If we can get that payback down to 5 years, as Bill wants to do, we are golden. Shaving the top off of our profligate hunger for cheap energy, then sharing it across the grid is a great way to go. It will require a paradigm shift away from our centralised, bigger-is-better approach to energy generation. Bring it on, I say!
Published in Environment & Resource Management | Video by frog on Wed, April 15th, 2009
Tags: Bill Gross, energy, Idealab, new zeland, solar, TED
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
Very interesting presentation.
The five year pay back is, as he says, a no-brainer.
Hope he hits it……
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