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Inside ECO:nomics (part 2)- Dr. Phyl Speser talks education and the energy crisis

I was able to find another spirited video from Phyl’s T2+2^TM series.

It’s Supply Chain economics… Speser style.

Anyway.

Here’s the second half of Dr. Speser’s discussion of ECO:nomics and the education gap.

He covers everything from Wendell Berry to consumption to our Declaration of Independence. And he connects (rather thoughtfully) our budding green revolution to the counter culture 60’s Read the rest of this entry »

Inside ECO:nomics (part 1)– Dr. Phyl Speser talks golf, education and the energy crisis

For an inside look at ECO:nomics, I’ve turned to one of the conference’s most vocal participants, the co-founder, CEO, and CTO of Foresight Technologies, Inc., Phyl Speser.

As you can tell from the video below (and this one and this one and this one), he’s a fairly animated guy.

In a room brimming with money and influence, this inquisitive Ph.D from “humble” Rhode Island stood head and shoulders… and arm and hand (his hand raisin’ rivaled only that of Amory Lovins during the 3 day event) above the fray.

I have successfully parlayed his fondness for questions into a response to one, very important question of my own: What steps need to be taken to ensure that our young people (researchers) are properly equipped to inherit our current energy crisis?

Needless to say he was not shy. Read the rest of this entry »

World’s Biggest Laser…Need I say more?

The National Ignition Facility (NIF), which is currently housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, fired its first full system shot back on Feb. 26.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about check out this video.

The laser (performs air quotes) could potentially be “the answer” (read: one of many) to the world’s energy crisis.

The achievement of fusion ignition in a laboratory setting sets an important precedent for fusion’s long-term potential as a safe (produces no greenhouse gases) and essentially limitless energy alternative.

The energy level will be systematically increased as tests continue over the next few months.

The hope is to fire all 192 beams (Darth Vader eat your heart out) at full energy, which would produce (according to this article) about 500 trillion watts of peak power.

Speaking of energy (seamless segue) check out the Wall Street Journal’s Eco:nomics recap in today’s edition. It’s a fast read and Jeffrey Ball did a nice job as host/interviewer during last week’s conference.

Stay tuned for my behind-the-scenes take of the Eco:nomics Conference later in the week. Everything you want to know about, but probably won’t read about Eco:nomics.

Don’t act like you’re not intrigued.

(I love parentheses, almost as much as I love “lasers.”)