Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think
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technophilanthropists.
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increasing the energy density of batteries by an order of
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Jacqueline Novagratz, CEO of the Acumen Fund, who is affecting the lives of millions of people in Africa and Asia.”
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incentive competitions to reinvent education
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Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, which awards $5 million (and $200,000 a year for life afterward) to any African leader who serves out his or her term within the limits of a country’s constitution and then leaves office
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Sustainable Enterprise at the University of North Carolina.
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Cornell Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise.)
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“If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value-conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up,”
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products with the BoP consumer.
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M-banking allows people to check their balances, pay bills, receive payments, and send money
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fishermen can check in advance which ports are paying top dollar before hauling their catch into shore,
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today’s greatest commodities aren’t physical objects, they’re ideas.
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ENERGY
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“cheetah generation”
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governance—three issues she believes could be changed significantly with more access to energy.
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Emem
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The German Aerospace Center estimates that the solar power in the deserts of North Africa is enough to supply forty times the present world electricity demand.
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David Wheeler, a research fellow at the Center for Global Development, found that Africa has nine times the solar potential of Europe and an annual equivalent to one hundred million tons of oil.
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Energy Innovations
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Suntech,
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PV production and installation have grown at 45 percent to 50 percent per year for the last decade. That is epic, as the remainder
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Today the global average price per installed watt is below $1.30.
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We use half the amount of silicon to produce a watt of power than we did five years ago.”
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1366 Technologies, a solar start-up launched by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Emanuel Sachs.
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first quarter of 2010, while the number of solar-related patents nearly tripled between mid-2008 and the start of 2010.
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New Energy Technologies
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Stephen Rand
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right intensity through a nonconductive material such as glass, can create magnetic fields 100 million times stronger than previously believed possible.
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SunShot Initiative
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six cents per kilowatt-hour—a price capable of undercutting even
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onshore wind power is down to $68 per megawatt (MW), while coal in those same regions is about $67 per MW.
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Vestas,
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algae can produce thirty times more energy per acre than conventional biofuels.
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Synthetic Genomics Inc.
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new test facility in San Diego.
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split water into hydrogen and oxygen, then combine it with carbon dioxide and turn the result into a hydrocarbon fuel called ‘bio
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“corn produces 18 gallons per acre per year and palm oil about 625 gallons per acre per
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Amyris Biotechnologies
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Solazyme
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hacking
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photosynthesis.
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Joint Center for Artificial Ph...
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We’re basically turning sunlight, water, and CO2 into storable, transportable fuels—we call ‘solar fuels’—to address the other two-thirds of our energy
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meaning solar fuels could completely replace fossil fuels.
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John Doerr, Kleiner’s
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Primus Power,
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Aquion Energy
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Rather than relying on lithium, a rare and toxic element, its battery uses sodium and water, two cheap and ubiquitous ingredients with the added advantage of being neither lethal nor flammable.
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one cent.
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Liquid Metal Battery (LMB)