Energy
TEDxPittsburgh - Dr. Greg Reed and Emmanuel Taylor - Back to the Future
Greg is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the Power and Energy Initiative, and Associate
Director of the Center for Energy at the University of Pittsburgh. He has more than 25 years of combined industry and academic experience in the electric power and energy area including executive positions at Consolidated Edison of New York, ABB Inc., Mitsubishi Electric, and KEMA Inc. He has authored more than 75 technical papers and articles, and is active in multiple national engineering organizations. Greg earned his B.S. at Gannon University, his
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Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid
What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how questioning our notion of 'normal' can lead to extraordinary breakthroughs.
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Emerging Energy Technologies
The panel on Emerging Energy Technologies is the final kick-off event for the 2011 YCEI annual conference.
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Singularity University (NASA Ames)- PlayENERGY Team Project
Challenged to create a project that will impact 1 BILLION people, the GSP11 Energy Team creates "PlayENERGY"- a multi-player, multi-level game that uses real-time Energy usage data, social networking and crowdsourcing for rewards and real money savings.
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Technology and Our Emerging Energy Crisis
Solutions to clean energy production are found at the nexus of science, policy, and industry. Understanding the potentials and limitations of emerging energy technologies, as well as the underlying science, is necessary for sound regulatory oversight and industrial-scale production.
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Harnessing the sun with disruptive technologies
The sun delivers more energy in a single day than the entire population of earth uses in a year.
As head of the photovoltaic incubator at the US's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Symko-Davies sees early stage technologies that are driving down costs and increasing the efficiency of our most plentiful energy source.
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Bloom Energy
Bloom Energy is changing the way the world generates and consumes energy.
Our unique on-site power generation systems utilize an innovative new fuel cell technology with roots in NASA's Mars program.
Derived from a common sand-like powder, and leveraging breakthrough advances in materials science, our technology is able to produce clean, reliable, affordable power,... practically anywhere,... from a wide range of renewable or traditional fuels.
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