We found some incredible student innovators including our 2008 winner, Husk Power Systems a social enterprise that has already provided clean, safe and efficient electricity to more than 150, 000 low-income people in rural India.

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And yet if countries like Turkey want to develop, hydro-electricity is a clean, efficient way of doing so.

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Since gas-fired generation is about the most scalable, efficient, flexible, clean and (on a large scale) lowish-carbon form of electricity available, it is going to prove economically and politically attractive.

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And that means by 2035, 80 percent of our electricity will come from renewables like wind and solar, as well as efficient natural gas, clean coal, nuclear power.

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