Breakthrough Clean Energy: focus groups, guest speaker, next steps and weblinks.

Come to co-create, to focus and incubate the next steps for the San Rafael Clean Energy group. All are welcome.

Are you an inventor, investor, change agent, interested in helping to bring breakthrough clean energy technologies to production? Come to share what you need or want to see emerge to support this goal.

For June 7th:

• Guest speaker discussing how to protect your invention (intellectual property), fundraising and creating partnerships, other legal matters.

• Review leading prototypes for emerging clean energy technologies.

• Focus Groups Collaboration (how to proceed in these areas):

1. Inventor Ecosystem & Technology Vetting: Finding and Vetting technologies, supporting inventors, building the technology ecosystem and related tools

2. Funding platform: Investment, Fundraising & Crowdsourcing

3. Go To Market: Legal structures, Intellectual Property, Licensing, Open Source, Marketing & Distribution

Please add your ideas, experience and expertise by joining us June 7th at 7pm (after voting in the primaries)!

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Photo above: innovating flow - how to organize an ecosystem that continues to support inventors and investors...

Additional Links from the recent regular bi-monthly meetup (May 24th):

>> Intellectual Property:

http://www.eagle-research.com/
Energy conservation and solutions from Eagle Research, a non-profit organization that develops and sells practical energy saving methods and devices.

>> Funding Organizations, new organization structures:

https://daohub.org/principles.html
The DAO is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (“DAO”) - more specifically, it is a new breed of human organization never before attempted. The DAO is borne from immutable, unstoppable, and irrefutable computer code, operated entirely by its members, and fueled using ETH which Creates DAO tokens. Several aspects of this structure make it revolutionary… (visit the link above to read more).

http://qz.com/688194/the-price-of-ether-a-bitcoin-rival-is-soaring-because-of-a-radical-150-million-experiment/
Thousands of people have pumped $150 million into what might be the biggest crowdfunded project in history, something called the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). Compare this to the $20 million raised by the project with the most funds on Kickstarter, the Pebble Time smartwatch.

https://daohub.org/proposals.html
Current project proposals being considered for funding by the DAO community.

http://jump.ideascale.com/
DOE Grants (also presented at the recent Maker Faire in San Mateo).

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Below: Links from the first Breakthrough Clean Energy Gathering, Sat. May 14th:

>>>> Links to Current Working Prototypes presented (identifying most promising technologies and their current needs to bring them to availability):

http://www.tewari.org/
Detailed information on Tewari's Reactionless Generator in India (which has been reproduced by a factory already). Patents pending in the United States. Our speaker, Toby Grotz, witnessed the tests.

http://ausdemnichts.at/en/#trailer
In Austria, a docudrama (http://ausdemnichts.at/en/#trailer) about Tesla’s vision and the work of Paramahamsa Tewari has just been released.

http://brillouinenergy.com/
Guest Speaker, David Firshein, is from Brillouin Energy Corp.: a clean-technology company located in Berkeley California, which is developing ultra-clean, low-cost, renewable energy technologies capable of producing commercially useful amounts of thermal energy (heat). Brillouin’s technologies are based on low energy nuclear reactions (“LENR”), which it generates on a controlled basis in its uniquely designed reactors. There is no (zero) pollution of any kind, generated in Brillouin’s LENR system of outputting its heat.

http://www.resynergi.com (http://www.resynergi.com/)
Brian Bauer (participant) of Resynergi focuses on the global problem of waste plastics. The company develops, manufactures, sells and services modular, low emission, plastic-to-hydrocarbon oil conversion systems that recycle chemically valuable plastics to create fuels that are environmentally friendly with both low carbon and low sulfur. Our systems are easy to deploy, scale-able, and highly cost and energy efficient.

>>>> Links for crowdfunding methods:

Warren Linney, http://www.FirstEdison.com
Clean Energy Gathering speaker, Warren Linney, reviews current "Go to Market" options.

https://www.seedinvest.com
SeedInvest is powering startup investing through its premiere equity crowdfunding platform connecting venture capital, angel investors and accredited investors ...

>>>> Crowdfunding Clean Energy Case Studies:

https://jumpstartfund.com/#!/p/hyperloop™-transportation/overview
JumpStartFund: the hyperloop.

http://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2013/08/21674-crowdfunding-platform-jumpstartfund-offers-elon-musks-hyperloop-project/
Crowdfund Insider: Crowdfunding Platform JumpStartFund Offers Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Project.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-one-startup-is-building-the-hyperloop-for-free-2015-7
Business Insider: This startup is about to build a $100 million Hyperloop test track — and it's paying its employees nothing.

https://www.ketto.org/aadivaahan
Clean Energy Gathering speaker, Vivek Chaturvedi and team are building Aadivaahan, an electric vehicle with a ... world record 1631.5 km on an electric vehicle (non-solar) on a single charge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaax-q24pDU
Charge your smartphone with a plant! Ft. Bioo Lite, YouTube Video.
http://thecrowdfundingcenter.com/?page=project&id=1B6883
Bioo Lite at The CrowdfundingCenter.

>>>> Book suggestions
Lean Start Up (the minimum viable product): http://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898