Against a backdrop of dwindling fossil fuel reserves and climate change concerns, Daniel
Nocera of MIT wrote a Fall 2006 Daedalus article On the Future of Global Energy
reporting in 2002 the world "burned energy at a rate of 13.3 TW…" (terawatts) with a
projection that "if 9 billion people adopt the current standard of living for a US resident...
the world would need an astronomical 102 TW of energy in 2050."
The challenge is to provide this energy in a cost effective and environmentally benign
manner. The Dirigo (deer-uh-go, meaning "I Lead") Energy Institute, or DEI, is a research
and development nonprofit corporation started to respond to this challenge.
In that DEI restricts its energy related R&D activities to sources in the public domain, its
motto is "Power without Borders."
DEI was initially incorporated in 1992. A power pyramid was adopted as its symbol with
R&D efforts concentrating on the sun, the atom, and the earth. DEI was unable to herald
its programs in sufficient depth and detail to attract a following so it was dissolved. This
new version will be rising from the ashes of the old, so a Phoenix is shown above the
original power pyramid with the combination of the two serving as the new symbol of DEI.
The Dirigo Energy Institute, Inc.
24 Oak Grove Avenue
Bath, Maine 04530-2205
1-207-443-5184
Comments, questions, or concerns can be sent to the above or emailed.
05-30-09
© 2009 The Dirigo Energy Institute, Inc.
Nocera of MIT wrote a Fall 2006 Daedalus article On the Future of Global Energy
reporting in 2002 the world "burned energy at a rate of 13.3 TW…" (terawatts) with a
projection that "if 9 billion people adopt the current standard of living for a US resident...
the world would need an astronomical 102 TW of energy in 2050."
The challenge is to provide this energy in a cost effective and environmentally benign
manner. The Dirigo (deer-uh-go, meaning "I Lead") Energy Institute, or DEI, is a research
and development nonprofit corporation started to respond to this challenge.
In that DEI restricts its energy related R&D activities to sources in the public domain, its
motto is "Power without Borders."
DEI was initially incorporated in 1992. A power pyramid was adopted as its symbol with
R&D efforts concentrating on the sun, the atom, and the earth. DEI was unable to herald
its programs in sufficient depth and detail to attract a following so it was dissolved. This
new version will be rising from the ashes of the old, so a Phoenix is shown above the
original power pyramid with the combination of the two serving as the new symbol of DEI.
The Dirigo Energy Institute, Inc.
24 Oak Grove Avenue
Bath, Maine 04530-2205
1-207-443-5184
Comments, questions, or concerns can be sent to the above or emailed.
05-30-09
© 2009 The Dirigo Energy Institute, Inc.
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