Notes of Steven Chu's lecture
Deepwater horizon disaster
-think out of box and quick learner
Global warming
-short term, high risk-high reward projects
Bell's Lab culture
-Hire people better than you. As hire As, Bs hire Cs.
-SunShot, (and another company)
Clean energy
-Agricultural land use→most greenhouse gases
-Clean energy, generally wind and solar (large future job market)
-Once wind+solar reach 50%, much cheaper
-US solar energy twice expensive as Germany, rich people, tax and fees
-Market
(when clean energy is cheap enough
(China, 2020, 11-12% electrical vehicles(air pollution)
Q: For developing countries like China, there is a conflict between environmental protection and economic development
A: There is no conflict. Clean energy can be even cheaper than traditional energy like coal. It's just many people invested in coal plants so they don't want clean energy to get into the market. So they tell people there is a conflict between development and environment.