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The inventor of the technology behind thin film solar, the hydrogen fuel cell, and the batteries used in hybrid cars spoke at UC Berkeley on Tuesday, April 8. In addition to his scientific achievements, which have led to 350 patents, and to Stan Ovshinsky being called "the modern world's most important energy visionary," Stan has been deeply concerned with the intersection between the environment, jobs, and development. Video and a podcast of his talk can be found at
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=23036

Ovshinsky's main arguments in his talk sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley are that "Science must be value-driven," and that we have to act now to reverse global climate change.

Around the 25th minute of the webcast, he talks about how "It's not a fad to think about the environment. It's not something you do to make yourself feel like you're doing something right. It's an absolute necessity." Ovshinsky, an 85-year-old self-taught inventor, then goes into how he developed many of the breakthrough technologies in solar, hydrogen fuel cell, nickel metal hydride batteries, and even the field of physics that makes writeable CDs and DVDs possible.

Stan Ovshinsky is given 2 introductions, and his talk begins about 21 minutes into the webcast.

For more information, see the webcast at http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=23036
And UC Berkeley’s Center for Latin American Studies at http://clas.berkeley.edu