The Breakthrough Institute works to make fascinating and innovative technologies like the ones described in this article a reality.

"Reaching a substantive global agreement in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the UN-sponsored climate-change conference this December on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is a necessary step, but it is not sufficient. In order to avoid catastrophic tipping points, we need to effectively manage key Earth system processes, and we need to do it now."

"Without an accelerated transition to improved technologies, societies will find it increasingly difficult – and in the end probably impossible – … to provide the affordable energy needed for sustainable prosperity everywhere without intolerably disrupting the Earth’s climate."