March 26, 2008

Growing Energy

Juan Enriquez gave a talk at TED late last year that I really wanted to share with all of you. Enriquez is a leading world authority on life sciences and how they are expected to change our lives as we know them. In this talk he explains what bioenergy actually is and how we could use it to create energy. He suggests that we’ve been using brute force to create energy and ruining the environment in the process. Using biology to harness the energy in hydrocarbons, he persuasively argues, could revolutionize the energy industry and the economy. He says it best. Check it out!