Stewart Brand: Progress with Nuclear Fusion? November 10, 2011

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/26/Energy_Finding_the_Right_Mix

Stewart Brand, president and co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, describes how the National Ignition Facility has almost created a nuclear fusion reaction with net energy output that will drastically alter the energy game.

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RETHINKING SUSTAINABILITY

Energy: Finding the Right Mix

Serial Conversation:
Bill Joy
Senior Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Issam Dairanieh
US Director Alternative Energy Ventures BP

Monty Cleeves
Founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer
Pinnacle Engines

Jigar Shah Chief Executive Officer
Carbon War Room

Richard E. Riman
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Stewart Brand
President, The Long Now Foundation
Co-Founder, Global Business Network

Daniel Shugar
Chief Executive Officer, Solaria Corporation

Jay F. Whitacre
Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Chief Technology Officer, Aquion Energy

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