Energy Innovation

Tom Friedman: "A breakthrough innovation is always hard to predict and the case of energy will be no different. 'you are not going to see it coming,' Bill Gates said to me in an interview. 'the breakthrough will probably come out of somewhere you least expect, and we'll only know how it happened looking backward.'"

Energy Crisis and Its Consequences

The global energy crisis is one of the few topics that cross my mind on a daily basis. The actions that we take today and our energy policies will have profound effects not just on the way we live tomorrow but also on whether or not we will Be a leading nation in an increasingly competitive world.

One quote I read recently in a Thomas Friedman book caught my attention. I would like to invite others to comment on this.

There are "five key problems that a hot, flat, and crowded world is dramatically intensifying. They are: the growing demand for ever scarcer energy supplies and natural resources; a massive transfer of wealth to oil-rich countries and their petrodictators; disruptive climate change; energy poverty, which is sharply dividing the world into electricity haves and electricity have-nots; and rapidly accelerating biodiversity loss, as plants and animals go extinct at record rates." (Hot, Flat, and Crowded, 26)