Video: The Energy Problem and the Interplay Between Basic and Applied Research

This is one of the first times I see the Secretary of Energy speak about the “energy crisis”. Secretary Chu’s idea of having a Bell Labs like atmosphere where you can win a Nobel prize and save the world sounds very promising.

Introduction (Via MIT World)

The situation facing our planet could hardly be more dire: There’s increasingly dangerous competition among nations for ever scarce energy resources, and climate change is racing ahead of predictions. Although Steven Chu believes “We are getting close to where it’s very nervous time,” he also sees “reason for hope.”

Just as science in the 1970s produced a “green revolution” in agricultural productivity, preventing mass starvation in a swelling global population, Chu is counting on transformative scientific and engineering ideas to achieve sustainable energy and cap climate change.

About The Speaker (Via MIT World)

Steven Chu was sworn into office on January 21, 2009 (as US Energy Secretary). Prior to his appointment, he was a professor of Physics and of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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