While rising global prosperity increases energy demand and resulting greenhouse gas emissions, promising low-carbon technologies offer reason for optimism. Eric Toone, Breakthrough Energy’s chief technical officer, gave this assessment in his keynote address at the recent Energizing@MIT, the annual research conference of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI).“Energy is how we make things … build and heat our homes … grow and prepare our food. So, energy is prosperity,” said Toone.Toone oversees the technological roadmap and evaluation at Breakthrough, which is a network of organizations founded by Microsoft’s Bill Gates to accelerate…
