The Kind of Energy Research I'd Like to See More Of
Energy needs a Nate Silver. Perhaps Gregory Nemet of the University of Wisconsin is that guy.
Alexis Madrigal
Senior Editor, The Atlantic
The author of a book about the history of green technology,
Madrigal writes about cleantech and other topics from Silicon Valley. Intro to this series.
Danielle Fong
Co-founder, LightSail Energy
After entering a Princeton PhD program in her teens to work on nuclear fusion, Fong has set her sights on reinventing energy storage.
Joe Foster
VP of Business Development, Alta Devices
Joe Foster is a lifelong Silicon Valley resident and semiconductor industry veteran who is working on a new and exciting kind of solar cell.
Corwin Hardham
CEO, Makani Power
Hardham's leading his team's efforts to build a wind turbine that takes off like a helicopter and generates electricity flying through the air.
Lynn Jurich
Co-Founder, SunRun
The biggest innovation in solar over the last decade might be SunRun's business model, not an individual technology.
Adam Marsh
Co-founder and CTO, Clean Power Finance
Adam Marsh is part of a new wave of green tech companies that have software at their cores.
Yoky Matsuoka
VP of Technology, Nest
Yoky Matsuoka is a roboticist and AI specialist who has turned to a simper machine: Nest's autodidactic thermostat.
Siva Sivaram
CEO, Twin Creeks
Sivaram is borrowing a page from the chip industry's book by focusing on making manufacturing solar cells cheaper and better.
Alex Tkachenko
President, Siluria
Siluria may be able to turn natural gas cheaply into any chemicals with a high-tech new process.
Ryan Wartena
CEO, Growing Energy Labs, Inc
This former battery scientist is creating the energy operating system you'll need to run the efficient home or office of the future.
Energy needs a Nate Silver. Perhaps Gregory Nemet of the University of Wisconsin is that guy.
When Silicon Valley's old obsession meets one of its newer ones.
Nest is an awesome gadget that will over time pay for itself.
Those proton accelerators aren't just good for particle physics anymore.
And really, who could complain?
Social innovations can be as important as the development of new machines.
A new look at how Henry Kissinger's State Department dealt with the energy crises of the 1970s.
Maybe, just maybe, you can turn it into a true alternative to oil.
Meet three entrepreneurs who are changing the supply chain.
More batteries are coming to your life -- and they're going to have to get a whole lot smarter.
A very old technology could get a reboot that places it at the center of the low-carbon future.
The long road to a transformational wind technology that could let humanity access the energy blowing off our shores.
The power coming through your electrical socket is undergoing the fastest, largest change in American history.
Meet Corwin Hardham, Makani Power's CEO.
Meet Danielle Fong, co-founder of LightSail Energy.
Meet Ryan Wartena, founder of Growing Energy Labs Inc.
Meet the new generation of energy entrepreneurs who are leading the charge to transform the world's energy system.