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When it comes to climate change and human development, what few things can make our future dramatically different and better than today? Why are these important, yet challenging to approach? Then, focusing on forms of nuclear energy, what has Google done to accelerate technology options, and what’s the project at Berkeley?
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Ross joined Google in 2000 as its first Director of Engineering after an entrepreneurial early career. He was one of the early inventors of Google’s AdWords, the main revenue driver for the company. He contributed to the design of Google’s breakthrough high-efficiency data center in The Dalles, Oregon. Driven by learnings from his efforts on Google’s RE less-than C (renewable electricity cheaper than coal), Ross started an advanced energy research group to explore what Google could do to accelerate future nuclear-derived energy, a part of the solution to climate change.
