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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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Clean Energy

2

Why Now?

Sectors and Opportunities

Investment Trends

Industry Growth

Predicting the Future

Summary 

Table of Contents

3

Why Now?

Energy Independence 

Climate Change

Economic Opportunity 

4

And its not just the United States….

China 

India

UAE, Pakistan…. 

Clean Energy

Sectors and Opportunities

6

Sectors and Opportunities

Energy Efficiency

Industrial

Agriculture

Carbon Sequestration Sustainable Materials

Energy Generation

Energy Storage Water

Transportation

7

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

1 Billion BTU’s

8,000 Gallons of  gas

Drive around the  world 6 times

Embodied Energy to build One

House

Data Source – The Deconstruction Institute

Green Building Materials

9

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

10

Waste is valuable….

Most expensive coffee  in the world??

11

Biology

Synthetic Genomics

Microbial engineering

Chemicals and Fuels

Clean Energy

Investment Trends

13

Investment Trends

Source: CleanTech.com

14

Energy Efficiency•

Energy Storage

Building Materials•

Water

Solar•

Bio‐Plastics

Hot Investment Sectors

15

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)

Clean Energy

Industry Growth

17

Capital availability

Stimulus Package–

Opportunities

Challenges

Industry Growth

Clean Energy

Predicting the future

19

Predicting the Future…

“The best way to predict  the future is to invent it.”

Alan Kay

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Ignore the “experts”….

“There is no reason for any individuals to have a 

computer in their home”

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?”

Harry M. 

Warner, Warner Bros, 1927 

Clean Energy

Summary

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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

Clean Energy

Thank you

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