From a correspondent at the World Economic forum in Davos: I went to the energy dinner hosted by MIT and the striking thing was the composition of the audience. No top guys from Shell or BP in evidence. But Silicon Valley packing the room. The tech crowd included Vint Cerf, Vinod Khosla, John Doerr, Larry Page, Chad Hurley … and Sergey Brin came late. So full that even Page and Hurley had trouble getting in. Topics: nanobatteries, solar, natural selection and biofuel bugs, transmission grids.

2015-07-29:

If we create the right environment for innovation, we can accelerate the pace of progress, develop and deploy new solutions, and eventually provide everyone with reliable, affordable energy that is CO2 free. We can avoid the worst climate-change scenarios while also lifting people out of poverty, growing food more efficiently, and saving lives by reducing pollution.

2015-11-30:

2 related initiatives are being announced at today’s event. One is Mission Innovation, a commitment by more than 10 countries to invest more in research on clean energy. The other is the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, a global group of private investors who will support companies that are taking innovative clean-energy ideas out of the lab and into the marketplace. Our primary goal with the Coalition is as much to accelerate progress on clean energy as it is to make a profit.

this is a good step but coal needs to be defunded much more.

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