Solar; Wind; Geothermal; Biofuels; Hydropower; Ocean; Smart Buildings; Transportation; Efficiency & Conservation; The Energy Internet; Preface; CLEAN TECHNOLOGY ESSAYS -- A New Economics -- A Price on Carbon; Climate Science I -- The Basics; Climate Science II -- The Complex Stuff; Climate Science III -- The Bad Stuff; Cheap Money -- Enter the Green Bond; Hydrogen -- An Energy Vector; Nuclear -- Fission and Fusion; Carbon Sequestration -- Burn it and Bury it; The End of Easy Oil -- Saving for the Future; Postscript: The World in 2050; Endnotes; Index.
Tom Rand currently acts as Lead Cleantech Advisor at the Toronto-based MaRS Institute, which supports the commercialisation of Canadian research and development. Before joining MaRS, Tom was a successful entrepreneur, founding Voice Courier Inc. in 1991, a telecommunications software company. He led its expansion to over 100 employees in three countries. In 2005, following the sale of the company, he started VCi Green Funds, a private venture fund to provide angel and venture capital to companies developing emission-reduction technologies. This included taking hands-on leadership roles in clean-tech companies ranging from geothermal and wind to green buildings and hydrogen. As co-founder of Planet Traveler, the greenest hotel in North America, Tom exhibits his talent for innovation. He also has broad experience on leading clean-tech organisations and was the manager for the Green Bonds public policy team, a high-profile initiative presented to federal and provincial governments in Canada. Recently, Tom was appointed an Action Canada fellow. Tom has a bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, a masters in science from the University of London, and a masters and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto.
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