Transforming energy with natural gas
US energy tycoon T Boone Pickens tells TED.com audiences that natural gas may just be our immediate bridge to an oil-free future...
The US consumes 25 percent of the world's oil--but as energy tycoon T Boone Pickens points out onstage, the country has no energy policy to prepare for the inevitable. Is alternative energy our bridge to an oil-free future? After losing US$150 million investing in wind energy, Pickens suggests it isn't, not yet. What might get us there? Natural gas.
BY : TED.com