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technophilanthropists.
increasing the energy density of batteries by an order of
Jacqueline Novagratz, CEO of the Acumen Fund, who is affecting the lives of millions of people in Africa and Asia.”
incentive competitions to reinvent education
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
Sustainable Enterprise at the University of North Carolina.
Cornell Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise.)
“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,”
products with the BoP consumer.
M-banking allows people to check their balances, pay bills, receive payments, and send money
fishermen can check in advance which ports are paying top dollar before hauling their catch into shore,
today’s greatest commodities aren’t physical objects, they’re ideas.
“cheetah generation”
governance—three issues she believes could be changed significantly with more access to energy.
Emem
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.
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.
Energy Innovations
Suntech,
PV production and installation have grown at 45 percent to 50 percent per year for the last decade. That is epic, as the remainder
Today the global average price per installed watt is below $1.30.
We use half the amount of silicon to produce a watt of power than we did five years ago.”
1366 Technologies, a solar start-up launched by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Emanuel Sachs.
first quarter of 2010, while the number of solar-related patents nearly tripled between mid-2008 and the start of 2010.
New Energy Technologies
Stephen Rand
right intensity through a nonconductive material such as glass, can create magnetic fields 100 million times stronger than previously believed possible.
SunShot Initiative
six cents per kilowatt-hour—a price capable of undercutting even
onshore wind power is down to $68 per megawatt (MW), while coal in those same regions is about $67 per MW.
Vestas,
algae can produce thirty times more energy per acre than conventional biofuels.
Synthetic Genomics Inc.
new test facility in San Diego.
split water into hydrogen and oxygen, then combine it with carbon dioxide and turn the result into a hydrocarbon fuel called ‘bio
“corn produces 18 gallons per acre per year and palm oil about 625 gallons per acre per
Amyris Biotechnologies
Solazyme
hacking
photosynthesis.
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
meaning solar fuels could completely replace fossil fuels.
John Doerr, Kleiner’s
Primus Power,
Aquion Energy
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.
one cent.
Liquid Metal Battery (LMB)