Energy Innovation Institutes

The Brookings Institute recently put on an event where they looked at energy and innovation in the US.  One of the panel experts was Dr. James Duderstadt, President (emeritus) of the University of Michigan.

Full disclosure: Dr. Duderstadt was President at U of M while I was a student there.  He was a huge champion of our work on the solar car team and, in fact, he was one of the folks who wrote me a recommendation to get into Harvard Business School.

Dr. Duderstadt makes a clear and compelling case the the money is available within existing budgets to radically change the energy mix in the US (via intense R&D) however the real question is whether there is the political will to allocate funds.

Watch this video to see the full case: