Technical Notes on Video:

Video length is 1:32:35.

John Durant, Director, MIT Museum, introduces the second of two Soap Box Sustainable energy discussions. He outlines the proceedings and introduces the two speakers.

At 3:10, Angela Belcher begins.

At 9:40, Daniel Nocera begins.

At 20:18, Durant invites the audience to organize in groups and formulate questions.

At 20:38, Durant reads audience questions.

At 23:44, Angela Belcher responds to the question of whether it is safe ecologically to start engineering microbes along the lines she described.

At 31:20, Belcher discusses the kind of contribution her technology could make over time.

At 32:46, Nocera discusses whether bio engineering can capture and reutilize carbon.

At 36:02. Belcher and Nocera discuss harvesting ocean organisms to understand their energy machinery.

At 39:04, the speakers answer the question, “Is this pie in the sky, or really coming?”

At 45:48, the speakers discuss the issue of distribution costs of new technologies and their impacts at large scale.

At 52:50, Nocera describes the earth’s energy needs, and the speakers discuss the energy costs of new technologies.

At 1:08:01, the speakers discuss funding issues in new energy research, including the competing priorities of government and corporations and the contribution of the military.

At 1:30:14, Durant wraps up the session, thanks the event’s organizers and speakers.