The Powerhouse: Inside The Invention Of A Battery To Save The World - Plot & Excerpts
To find out, Sujeet Kumar, Jeff Chamberlain, and dozens of private energy executives filed into a darkened conference room at UC Berkeley, invited by the Department of Energy for a two-day gathering just before Orlando. The morning keynote speaker was Vinod Khosla, the most aggressive clean-energy investor in Silicon Valley. The New Delhi–born Khosla had graduated from the elite Indian Institutes of Technology and gone on to cofound Sun Microsystems. In recent years, he had invested more than $1 billion of his own and investors’ money in solar power, biofuels, and batteries. He was blunt-spoken and usually dressed in black. Khosla began by challenging the premise of gasoline’s invincibility: recent history showed that it was as vulnerable as any other incumbent technology, he said. That the odds of beating gasoline were low was precisely why he was invested in doing so—it made the potential financial gain astronomical. “Experts as a group speak knowingly of the 2008 financial crisis, but in June 2008 none predicted it,”
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