Saul Griffith
Saul Griffith
Saul Griffithis an Australian American inventor. He is the founder or co-founder of seven companies, including Otherlab, Makani Power, and Instructables...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionInventor
CountryAustralia
build
I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.
understanding needs use
We need a proportional quantitative understanding of energy use, for everyone.
years people design
The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.
writing design tools
If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.
wind feet needs
Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.
mean drunk water
Energy literacy means you can see the waste in disposing of a plastic bottle after you've drunk water from some place on the other side of the world.