Powering the Future

Genre: Science

Premise: Dr. M. Sanjayan, lead scientist at The Nature Conservancy, shines a spotlight on America's quest for clean energy. The four-part series addresses the challenge from every angle and cuts through all the rhetoric by establishing a target: identifying a clean, limitless, secure energy supply and a way for it to be delivered. Sanjayan discusses new technologies that could end the dependence on fossil fuels; explains how the natural world can create energy; filters out politics and special interests to reveal statistics on energy waste; and tells of unlikely characters and companies that are leading the way in an energy sea change.