An inspirational speaker

Saul Griffith, PhD & founder of Otherlab

- by Stephen Gregory Lutsch

I just have to share a super inspirational speaker from Tuesday night. His name is Saul Griffith of OtherLab. Specifically, he had spun off a company doing some game-changing wind solutions called Makani Power that are developing Airborne Wind Turbines (AWT). I don't know if you are familiar with this technology but it is incredible. The issue they are running into is funding for large scale production and global scaling. He is also working on some incredible solar efficiency concepts that they have already prototyped.

My understanding is they are stumbling on the scaling up, connecting with the right manufacturers and acquiring proper funding. Immediately Know-Who and business model innovation came to mind. It is not about the technology (which is incredible) so much as getting wide scale deployment with financial viability.