Greentech can pick up tips from infotech

Venture capitalist Bob Metcalfe is of the view that the world can solve global warming by transferring Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurship to the energy field.Metcalfe on Monday reprised his EnerNet talk where he draws on the history of the Internet to challenge today’s thinking on energy. The co-inventor of Ethernet and current clean-tech investor at Polaris Ventures spoke at the Lux Research’s Executive Summit here. Overall, Metcalfe is optimistic that technology can solve the problem of global warming, either through through new technologies or geoengineering.

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