Caltech calls for 'crazy new science' to save the planet
Delia Milliron wants your windows to stop being so stupid. Mika Järvinen wants to lay waste to the concept of waste. Joel Dawson wants the world’s cell phone systems to save the energy equivalent of 7 million cars, while Yi Cui wants to put you into a shiny new Tesla.
Got your own crazy idea to save the world? Caltech’s Resnick Institute just might honor you next year withhttp://resnick.caltech.edu/awards.php its Resonate Award, a tribute it bestowed on each of these scientists this year. For details on the nomination procedure, go here.
Of course, there’s crazy and then there’s crazy. The kind the Resnick Institute is looking for is born of great intellect uninhibited by convention. “Truly disruptive innovation can turn on its head our preconceived notion of how the world can be,” said the institute’s director, Harry Atwater, as he introduced the 2015 award winners at a panel discussion held in Aspen, Colorado, this past July.http://climate.nasa.gov/news/2337/