Last week Google announced that the company, and its philanthropic subsidiary, Google.org, would explore research and develop renewable energy. The goal is to ultimately produce one gigawatt of renewable energy and do so more cheaply that coal-generated electricity, …
In this ninth installment of our on-going series of interviews with some of the leading thinkers and scientists on the subject of energy, we interview John C. Mankins.Facing and solving the multiple issues concerning energy is the single most pressing problem that we face as a species. There is a …