There is an ongoing discussion about energy and sustainability. One piece of this debate, to pull out an example, is whether we need to reduce the amount of oil that we use - how do we do this, what are the effects, is this good or bad for the economy, for our society?
The 3 of us have been discussing energy-related issues together for the 2 years that we have been graduate students at MIT and Harvard – during this time we have been thinking of ways we can contribute to the debate. What we bring is knowledge of what is happening in the technical, business and policy worlds related to energy – because of energy’s central position in our modern society, meaningful change will only happen when these three critical sectors are engaged simultaneously. Our blog will be a place to discuss the interaction of these 3 areas for people who have a stake or an interest in the development of the renewable energy sector. We also want to expose people to exciting developments occurring at Harvard and MIT. Lastly, we hope to create a platform to which our friends and acquaintances who are experts in these areas can contribute.
Because these three dimensions– technology, business, policy – and their interactions will define the future development of energy, we have decided to call the blog EnergyCubed.
Adrian Fay is a Research Scientist at Greg Stephanopolous’s lab at MIT. He is involved in various agricultural businesses in Argentina and the USA. Jason Fuller is a Chemical Engineering PhD Candidate in Robert Langer's lab at MIT with a focus on biotechnology. Lawrence A Walmsley is a joint degree candidate at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government with a focus on clean energy entrepreneurship. The 3 of us organized an MIT conference on entrepreneurship in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2006.
Best,
Adrian, Jason, Lawrence
