Cleantech Blog - San
Francisco,CA,USA: ... What is the Hub Lab all about?
Hub Lab's express purpose is
to find and support very early stage - revolutionary - energy science
and technology that has the potential to make a huge game-changing
difference. It is motivated by a strong belief that the planet is
headed for serious trouble, and that we need to look for dramatic and
wholesale changes in ways to meet rapidly growing worldwide demand for
energy and resources.
How revolutionary is revolutionary?
We mean really
revolutionary. We have a very specific focus to find and support true
breakthroughs. The great preponderance of investment and RD&D
addresses incremental or evolutionary innovation. We look for
opportunities to improve the chances of finding "new physics". We
sometimes talk about looking for "the next nuclear". Imagine, in the
year 1900, someone talking about a nuclear power plant. We haven't
reached the "end of physics", so it's practically a given that there
are big new things around the corner, whether it's in 5 years or 50.
Hub Lab simply wants to speed up the search. And we're comfortable
looking outside currently accepted thinking in science and engineering.
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Full article: http://www.cleantechblog.com/2009/02/hub-lab-seeks-revolutionary-new-energy.html
