Mascarenas floats a fix: Create a standardized battery component that can be plugged into any customized pack and swapped out to give a vehicle more range.
Even just putting efficiency and alternatives on an equal footing with heavily subsidized fossil fuels would level the market enough to turn the corner and create local jobs and component manufacturing here in the United States.
The installation, currently housed at the New York Hall of Science in Flushing, layers 12 of its component clear plastic sheets to create a roughly one-foot deep display that plays a simple pre-drawn animation.
Meaning that, like a connoisseur able to recognize a Rembrandt across a museum gallery, through a combination of education, experience and deduction Mr. Malle can recognize the component parts and knows what to add or subtract to create something special.
Two years into his tenure at RISD, 43-year-old Maeda is using his perch as a college president to sell innovation and design as a critical component of business in the 21st century and to somewhat stealthily create a new generation of RISD graduates who will be artrepreneurs.
Such an investment would create jobs in engineering, construction and computer fields, and have indirect effects on manufacturing and component assembling employment.