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Can renewable energy save the world? Panel discussion held by University of California, Santa Cruz February 11 2009. Peter Borden, Awais Khan, Ali Shakouri.
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Why Now?
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Sectors and Opportunities
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Investment Trends
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Industry Growth
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Predicting the Future
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Summary
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Why Now?
Energy Independence
Climate Change
Economic Opportunity
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And its not just the United States….
China
India
UAE, Pakistan….
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Sectors and Opportunities
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Sectors and Opportunities
Energy Efficiency
Industrial
Agriculture
Carbon Sequestration Sustainable Materials
Energy Generation
Energy Storage Water
Transportation
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Green Building Materials
“Buildings are the single largest contributor to global warming, accounting
for almost half of total energy consumption and CO2 emissions.”‐
US Energy Information Administration
Buildings(Materials and
Operations)
48% Other
Transport
27%
Industry25%
Cars12%
8Source: McGraw Hill, US Green Building Council
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1 Billion BTU’s
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8,000 Gallons of gas
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Drive around the world 6 times
Embodied Energy to build One
House
Data Source – The Deconstruction Institute
Green Building Materials
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Waste to Energy
Just in the US alone, every 5 min, 2 Million plastic bottles are
discarded – not recycled –
but discarded, which end up in landfills.
As of 2004 in the U.S., 850 billion gallons of raw sewage are being
dumped into waterways every year
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Waste is valuable….
Most expensive coffee in the world??
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Biology
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Synthetic Genomics
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Microbial engineering
Chemicals and Fuels
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Investment Trends
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Investment Trends
Source: CleanTech.com
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Energy Efficiency•
Energy Storage
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Building Materials•
Water
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Solar•
Bio‐Plastics
Hot Investment Sectors
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Demand Side is Under Represented
In the last 12 months, most Cleantech
private investments have been made
in the Energy Supply Side.
Source – Morgan Stanley, AlwaysOn
$0
$500
$1,000
$1,500
$2,000
$2,500
$3,000
$3,500
Solar Biofuels Wind Storage Efficiency
Investment ($ MM)
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Industry Growth
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Capital availability
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Stimulus Package–
Opportunities
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Challenges
Industry Growth
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Predicting the future
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Predicting the Future…
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
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Alan Kay
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Ignore the “experts”….
“There is no reason for any individuals to have a
computer in their home”
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Ken Olsen, President,
Chairman and Founder of DEC, 1977
"Everything that can be invented has been
invented." ‐
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner,
U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”
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Harry M.
Warner, Warner Bros, 1927
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Take away…
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not
dare that they are difficult” –
Seneca
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."
—T.S. Eliot
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Thank you
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