Episode 247: Energy Experts with an Attitude

Episode 247 originally broadcast on February 27, 2010

Russ visits with a BusinessMakers favorite, the brilliant and opinionated Josh Wolfe, co-founder and managing partner of venture capital fund Lux Capital. Wolfe discusses electric vehicles, solutions for solving nuclear waste problems, what works and what doesn’t. Then flash back to our interview with author and energy analyst, the outspoken Dr. Michael Economides.

School of Business 02/27/10

Russ and Esther present the show about the people that most positively affect our lives, the athletes and artists of our free enterprise system; that would be the entrepreneurs who work to make our lives better. Includes: the BusinessMakers Quote of the Day—a painful truth from American author Barry LePatner; This Week in Business History includes Prohibition, censorship and the Playboy Club (where else you gonna get this stuff?!); and Navigating Business Jargon—acronyms, technospeak and trendy new stuff.

Energy, Nuclear Waste and Nanoparticles

Russ visits with a BusinessMakers favorite, Josh Wolfe, co-founder and managing partner of venture capital fund Lux Capital. Wolfe has conducted and published cutting-edge immunopathology research, lectured at Harvard University and is one of the smartest people on the planet. And he always has an opinion that will surprise you. In this segment, he discusses components for electric vehicles, solutions for solving nuclear waste problems, what works and what doesn’t.

Flashback - Dr Michael Economides, Author & Energy Analyst

Russ flashes back to his interview with the outspoken Dr. Economides who has published books on energy and its surrounding political controversies. Energy abundance, he says, has determined which countries have money and which don’t - and there is an abundance of misinformation out there too.