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one-tenth the cost of current lithium-ion batteries.
home unit would go for about $7,500.
Sadoway.
“There’s a clear line of sight to get there, and no miraculous breakthroughs needed.”
Nathan Myhrvold
three masters degrees and a PhD from Princeton University—at twenty-three.
Intellectual Ventures.
Civilization currently runs on sixteen terawatts of powe
we’ve got to replace thirteen of those sixteen terawatts with clean energy.
five tons for every person on the planet.
Myhrvold included, who believe that the only other option is nuclear power.
Stewart Brand,
James Lovelock,
Bill McK...
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generation IV that explains the recent outpouring of support.
This extra heat gives fast reactors the ability to turn nuclear waste and surplus weapons-grade uranium and plutonium into electricity.
liquid fluoride thorium reactors.
four times more plentiful th...
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burn liquid metal fuels.
George Stanford
small-scale modular generation IV nuclear reactors
TerraPowe
traveling wave reactor
“We could power the world for the next one thousand years just burning and disposing of the depleted uranium and spent fuel rods in today’s stockpiles.”
2020.
Bob Metcalfe
Polaris Venture Partners,
Enernet,
Tomorrow’s smart grid will also have storage everywhere: storage at your appliances, your home, your car, your building, the community, and at every point of energy production.”
electric grid, which is at least tenfold larger.
communicate their energy usage and turn themselves off when not needed.
triple efficiency
‘sensing and response.’
There is more energy in the sunlight that strikes the Earth’s surface in an hour than all the fossil energy consumed in one year.
Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development,
Expanding today’s 1 percent penetration at an annual growth of 30 percent puts us eighteen years away from meeting 100 percent of our energy needs with solar. And growth
“why not drop the price of energy by an order of magnitude, driving the planet’s economic growth through the roof?
supply every person on the Earth with the American standard of fresh, clean water every day.
University of Calgary, Dr. David Keith,
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Sugata Mitra
NIIT Technologies,
“grandmother method”:
scores had jumped to 50 percent,
which was the same average as high-school kids studying biotech at the best schools in New Delhi. Next Mitra started refining
“one child in front of a computer learns little; four discussing and debating learn a lot.”
“minimally invasive education.”
SOLES are really just computer workstations with benches in front of them.
the granny cloud can increase test scores by 25 percent.
this work is collaborative.
