I know: nuclear energy has long had a bad name in the US. I believe, however, that it is an essential part of our future energy portfolio. Nuclear energy is clean, its generation is efficient, its resources are still abundant. Yes, nuclear waste treatment is a great concern. But, what ...

Andreas Kluth (Technology Correspondent, The Economist) continues his discussion of the new news during the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 07. Ann Grimes (Acting Director, Graduate Program in Journalism, Stanford University), Alan Warms (CEO, BuzzTracker), Chris Tolles (CEO, Topix), Dan Cohen (CEO, Pageflakes) all contribute ...

Newspapers, social networks, ad rates, and participatory journalism are all among the topics moderated by Andreas Kluth (Technology Correspondent, The Economist) during the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 07. Ann Grimes (Acting Director, Graduate Program in Journalism, Stanford University), Alan Warms (CEO, BuzzTracker), Chris Tolles (CEO, ...

Tony Perkins (Founder, AlwaysOn) introduces George Gilder and Dan Farber (Editor-in-Chief, ZDNet). Dan Farber moderates the discussion group of Andrew Keen (author, Cult of the Amateur), Bill Cleary (Founder, Cleary & Partners), Barbara Waugh (Director, University Relations, HP), and George Gilder (Chairman, Gilder ...

Tony Perkins (Founder, AlwaysOn) introduces George Gilder and Dan Farber (Editor-in-Chief, ZDNet). Dan Farber moderates the discussion group of Andrew Keen (author, Cult of the Amateur), Bill Cleary (Founder, Cleary & Partners), Barbara Waugh (Director, University Relations, HP), and George Gilder (Chairman, Gilder ...

He’s funny, articulate and generally regarded as a visionary. In this interview Guy Kawasaki talks about his latest venture, Truemors.com, but not until he tells us why “life is good” for anyone wanting to venture out on the net. Whether you watch this for the advice or the ...

Tony Perkins is the head honcho of AlwaysOn which, among other things, runs an annual conference for high-tech companies, venture capitalists and other tech insiders. Larry Magid caught up with him between sessions as the annual AlwaysOn Stanford Summit was getting underway.

Charlene Li (Senior Analyst, Forrester Research) hosted a discussion group during the 2007 Stanford Summit AlwaysOn conference. During the discussion she initiated several questions to Chris DeWolfe (CEO, MySpace), Dustin Moskowitz (Co-Founder, Facebook), Richard Rosenblatt (CEO, Demand Media), Gina Bianchini (CEO, Ning) and ...

Meet Y2E2, Stanford University’s new green Environment and Energy building, in the making. In this podcast we interview Jeffrey R Koseff, director of Woods Institute for the Environment. He tells us that Y2E2 aims at using 50 percent less energy and 90 percent less water, compared to an “ordinary” ...

A few facts: in the U.S., residential and commercial space accounts for 40 percent of our primary energy consumption and 38 percent of CO2 emissions are from operating buildings. Why, then, is so little attention paid to building energy efficient offices and residences? Prof. Gil Masters from Stanford University wants ...

Yogen Dalal is the managing director at Mayfield Fund, in Silicon Valley. I caught up with Yogen at the Pan IIT Global meet, where we talked about IIT, Mayfield’s India strategy and entrepreneurship.

In the interview, Yogen answers some tough questions, like what to do if your venture fails, ...

Adam Kreek: olympic rower, Stanford graduate, former oilfield worker. After next year’s Olympics, he is determined to make his mark in the biofuel industry. Adam plans to start his own biodiesel production plants together with his wife, back in his home country of Canada. Adam is one of the many ...

On June 1, Silicon Valley profiled itself as the future epicenter of solar power, energy efficiency and clean technologies at the Energy Summit 2007. Jacob and Desirae, two of my students at Stanford, attended to see with Silicon Valley’s leaders were up to. They report on the conference in this ...

In this first in a series of discussons on carbon sequestration, we meet Marc Hesse, an aspiring graduate student at Stanford, who studies the physical processes that govern the movement of carbon dioxide once injected into the ground. Will it stay down? Will carbon sequestration really help in reducing the ...

It’s not often that you get to meet one of the people who helped make Silicon Valley the tech powerhouse it is today. Here you get to meet Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist at VMWare. He also teaches computer science at Stanford University. Translation: he’s smart and ...

Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, is a professor of radiology and bioengineering, director of the Molecular Imaging Program and head of the nuclear medicine division at Stanford University. He shares his vision of the future based on molecular imaging.

This podcast is redistributed with permission from Lumera Corporation as part of ...

Following up on his lecture on geothermal energy, Professor Roland Horne met with some of my students. Horne is an expert in extracting heat from the earth. Hear more about the engineering and science behind traditional geothermal energy, and the promising “hot dry rock” process.

Everywhere you look, it seems, you’ll find another story on cleantech. If you’re curious about the investment community around this fast-growing (and increasingly-hyped) industry, you’ll want to hear what Erik Straser has to say.

Harry McCracken is the editor-in-chief of PC World. He recently resigned when his publisher asked him not to publish an article critical of Apple, fearing Steve Jobs’ reputation for holding long grudges and not wanting to risk the loss of Apple’s advertising dollars. Things are tough in the publishing ...

Al Saracevic is the deputy business editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. I caught up Mr. Saracevic at a recent conference on innovation journalism at Stanford university. In this segment, he is on a panel and talks about the Silicon Valley beat and how to get original news stories. It ...

Roz Naylor explained to us in a previous podcast how energy decisions made in the U.S. or Europe can have unintended consequences for the rest of the world. Because of the importance of this topic, we visited one of her PhD students, Joanne Gaskell, to learn more about the benefits, ...

Meet Professor Pam Matson, dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University and renowned scientist. Pam is super-excited about the opportunities that ever-increasing levels of private and industrial funding for energy and environmental research offer. How can universities contribute to finding sustainable energy sources and solutions to global ...

Plants are not as efficient as you might think in capturing solar energy. Current photovoltaic panels can capture more energy per square meter — quite a bit more in fact — than biomass crops that are being suggested as feedstock for ethanol. This is not a reason to dismiss biomass ...

You may not be aware that coalfires, both natural and man-made, generate large amounts of carbon dioxide. In China alone, the estimated amount equals that of the U.S. transportation sector! Meet Taku Ide, a PhD student at Stanford University, who is on a quest to extinguish these fires.

China’s economy is growing fast, and China’s demand for energy is growing right along with it. To accommodate this growth in a sustainable manner, China must move away from a largely coal-based energy portfolio. If it does not, the already severe environmental impacts of large-scale coal usage will continue to ...