TEDTalk Tuesday: Why can't we grow new energy?

[Occulus]

This week's TEDTALKTUESDAY explores the potential of bioenergy (note: this is not ethanol) as one way to help stave off an energy crisis by using the processes nature itself uses to help us get the most out of our energy sources- coal, natural gas, and oil- while avoiding environmental destruction and the waste products associated with processing those raw materials.

Enjoy!

JUANENRIQUEZ

Talk title: Why can't we grow new energy? (Video runtime: 18:16)



Juan Enriquez

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About this Talk

Juan Enriquez offers a glimpse of some ground-breaking research to explore the potential of bioenergy. Our current energy sources -- coal, oil, gas -- are ultimately derived from ancient plants -- they're "concentrated sunlight." He asks, Can we learn from that process and accelerate it? Can we get to the point where we grow our own energy as efficiently as we grow wheat? (Less than a month after this talk, his company announced a process to do just that.)

[Lorien]

1. Thanks! I've downloaded it to my iPod :-) n/t