
Berkeley, March 3, 2010 Bill Weihl, Google's Green Energy Czar, was the keynote speaker at the BERC's (Berkeley Energy and Research Collaborative) Innovation Expo kicking off the Energy Symposium 2010 at the University of California Berkeley. The evening event featured some 80 poster presentations by energy researchers, students, and policy makers, and the local start-up community. We see the climate problem as one of the most pressing problems facing humanity. I'm sure all of you know the scale of the problem we face, we need to transform our energy infrastructure virtually completely. Its perhaps the most daunting problem that modern civilization has ever faced on many fronts, technology, leadership, global cooperation, and on and on. The good news is that it is a solvable problem. We need really serious breakthroughs in technology and we need them soon, to provide the clean energy technologies required to transform our energy infrastructure at scale in the time frame needed to really avert what could be catastrophic climate change. Bill also commented on Googles RECC Intiative (Renewable Electricity Cheaper than Coal) Our belief is that getting the price of renewables below the price of the polluting alternatives is essential to get them adopted by scale. To really transform our energy infrastructure and get to zero carbon by 2050 we need cheap clean sources of energy. We do believe we need to put a price on carbon and we need to begin to internalize all those <b>...</b>
Bill Weihl
BERC
Innovation Expo
Energy Symposium 2010
Climate Change
Innovation
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