Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!

In this TED talk from 2010 Bill Gates presents a vision for the future of energy.

At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he’s backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.

The Artificial Leaf

An interesting video from Focus Forward Vimeo competition about a technical challenge until now, can we build an artificial leaf ?

Dan Nocera has a simple formula to save the planet: sunlight + water = energy for the world.

“Energy Waste” Recycling

Does the modern society wastes energy?

This next video from Vimeo is one way to recycle it.

Invented by a group of students, the “energy waste” recycling system produces free and eco-friendly electricity from light, heat, vibration, deformation and electromagnetic waves. Due to it’s high performance, this system can become the main power source of the modern city’s infrastructure.

Shedding light on dark matter

In this video from TedEd we get more information about the dark matter.

Physicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe between them, they can’t be directly measured, but their influence is immense.