3 Quotes by Varun Sivaram

But my colleagues in academia had shown me that solar technologies far superior to today’s already exist in the lab. If they could be refined and mass-produced, they could one day make it possible to harness the sun’s energy much more efficiently and cheaply.

Because both nuclear and fossil plants are widely used in today’s power sector, building them into the future electricity mix would be least disruptive to the status quo.

In 2015, Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk quipped, “We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun. You don’t have to do anything. It just works. It shows up every day and produces ridiculous amounts of power.