Are you smarter than a refrigerator? Smart grid, smart car, smart home energy management. The energy dialogue revolves around "smart" buzzwords. But can technology really lure us into reducing our energy consumption? And what’s the science behind the newer, smarter gadgets and systems leading us toward a greener future?
Bio
June Flora
Dr. June Flora is a senior research scientist at H-STAR Institute at Stanford University. Her research and work focuses primarily on the study and development of energy reduction and conservation interventions. This work is funded by the Department of Energy, with Byron Reeves Ph.D. as principal investigator. The Energy Reductions through Sensors, Feedback and Information Technology initiative is composed of 12 research projects: 8 interventions, 2 data modeling and 2 foundational research programs. Flora also has developed and evaluated a high school youth climate change program where teens develop an edutainment curriculum and teach younger teens about the science of climate change, and personal behavior change in energy, transportation and food.
With 20+ years at Stanford University Department of Communication and Stanford Prevention Research Center, Dr. Flora brings an extensive background and publication record in health communication and social marketing to the field of energy reduction.
Sean Harrington
Sean Harrington is Director of Client Solutions for OPOWER. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Mr. Harrington leads the company's operations on the West Coast. Mr. Harrington is an experienced entrepreneur, having founded and built a successful company and worked in the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mr. Harrington holds a B.S. in Geomatics Engineering from the University of Calgary and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Michael Kanellos
Michael Kanellos is the Editor in Chief at Greentech Media, where he covers emerging technologies and companies in the green world. Prior to joining the company in 2008, he worked for CNET Network's News.com for eleven years. Among other jobs at CNET, he launched the company's push into clean technology.
He has appeared on NPR, CBS, CNBC, Fox News and other media outlets and has spoken at CES, the Japan Business Strategy Summit, Ceatec, the Irish Software Association, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, the Flash Memory Summit and Clean Energy Venture Summit.
A graduate of Cornell University and the University of California (Hastings), he has worked as an attorney, a travel writer and a busboy at a pancake house.
Sunil Maulik
Sunil Maulik is Vice President of Sales & Business Development for People Power. He has co-founded three software companies including GeneEd, where he developed a system for healthcare e-learning. Prior to GeneEd, he served as VP of Business Development at Pangea Systems, a Kleiner-Perkins funded bioinformatics company, head of West Coast sales for Tripos, and an applications scientist at Roche Bioscience. He has a Ph.D. in biophysics from Brandeis University, an M.Sc. in Crystallography from Birkbeck College, London, and a B.Sc.'s in physics and biology from King's College, London. He sits on the boards of Acteva Inc. and Health2.0, and has been an adjunct faculty member at UC Berkeley. He is co-author of Molecular Biotechnology, published by John Wiley & Sons.
Linda Schuck
Linda Schuck is Director of the Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Project at CIEE. Currently, her work is focused on expanding behavior and decision research and its use in energy and climate policy and technology commercialization. Prior to joining CIEE, she directed the California Climate Change Project at Stanford University. She has held managerial positions at the US Department of Energy, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and the Alliance to Save Energy, and she's served as a management consultant to the California Energy Commission, Southern California Edison, Bonneville Power Administrations, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, PG&E, and numerous other organizations. She has experience managing social science-based research and conducting experimentally designed research programs. She also works on clean technology commercialization and serves on the Advisory Board of the Environmental Business Cluster, a clean energy technology incubator. She has an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, an M.A. from Antioch Graduate School, and a B.A. from Stanford University.
Principle of physics according to which the energy of interacting bodies or particles in a closed system remains constant, though it may take different forms (e.g., kinetic energy, potential energy, thermal energy, energy in an electric current, or energy stored in an electric field, in a magnetic field, or in chemical bonds [seebonding]). With the advent of relativity physics in 1905, mass was recognized as equivalent to energy. When accounting for a system of high-speed particles whose mass increases as a consequence of their speed, the laws of conservation of energy and conservation of mass become one conservation law. See alsoHermann von Helmholtz.
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