American Physical Society’s “Third Conference on the Physics of Sustainable Energy”

In early march, my colleague Jim Boyden and I are headed up to Berkeley for the annual meeting of the American Physical Society.  We’ll be checking out some of the breakthroughs in the application of physics to solving the problems of providing the world with abundant and inexpensive clean energy.  I’ll try to talk Jim into hanging around an extra day and taking a tour of various facilities where such products are under development.

One such stop is Natel Energy, specializing in low-head hydrokinetics; their concept is explained nicely by the video on the home page.  Hard to believe this could be cost-effective, but I’m looking forward to the presentation.