Energy

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Entrepreneurship and Energy

Patrick Von Bargen delivers the inaugural speech of Yale’s Sabin Prize Environmental Adventures Speaker Series. The speech, entitled “Opening Solyndra’s Box — Entrepreneurship and Energy: Where Does Energy, Innovation and Deployment Policy Go from Here?” is presented in its entirety, offering an opportunity to go behind doors that until recently would have been closed to all but a tiny elite.

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T. Boone Pickens on Solutions to America’s Energy Crisis

T. Boone Pickens discussed America’s energy crisis at Yale. Pickens has been lobbying for the “Pickens Plan,” which calls for switching to natural gas for transportation fuels and investing in renewable energy sources such as wind farms and solar energy.

Daniel Yergin on the Globalization of Energy

Globalization of Energy Demand

Energy policy is a leading concern of today’s world. Our desire to lessen our dependency on oil and to create more efficient alternative energy are some of the top concerns to governments around the world. In this lecture, energy expert Daniel Yergin, discusses what he calls the “globalization of demand.”

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Why nuclear power is the planet’s best energy choice

Burton Richter focuses on the future of nuclear power, specifically at the United States. Nuclear is clean, comparatively inexpensive and abundantly available. He frames his talk around the problems of waste disposal, pollution, safety and proliferation, and the technological challenges of other alternative energy sources.

Richard Sears

Planning for the End of Oil

At it’s peak, oil represented 50% of overall energy sources; today it is 35%. Based on this information, the rise of natural gas and the rise of renewables as energy alternatives, there is no reason not to believe the end of oil is on its way.