Mad Like Tesla: Underdog Inventors and Their Relentless Pursuit of Clean Energy

By Tyler Hamilton

Categories: Engineering & Transportation, Science & Math

Tyler Hamilton goes looking for a modern counterpart to Nikola Tesla, profiling inventors and entrepreneurs who pursue unconventional answers to climate change. Through first-person interviews, he shows the social, financial and personal barriers they face. Subjects include Louis Michaud, a retired refinery engineer who believes energy can be harnessed from man-made tornadoes, and a company that genetically modifies algae to secrete ethanol. Hamilton also surveys solar, wind, biofuels, smart grids and energy storage.

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