There is No 1: Charles Chase at TEDxCollegeoftheCanyons

Charles Chase manages the Revolutionary Technology Programs organization for the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works. The organization's charter is to create, mature, and transition a broad range of disruptive technologies with significant Lockheed Martin system impact. Technology focus areas include: power and propulsion systems; RF and optical meta-materials; cognitive and physiological human performance monitoring; new sensor modalities; adaptive and bio-inspired structures; and plasma flow control devices. He recently won the Lockheed Martin Innovate the Future contest with "Power from Low Speed Wind", and was a semifinalist in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge with "Bio-Inspired Morphing" to eliminate design stagnation. He presented his organization's work on compact fusion power and propulsion at the 2013 Google "Solve for " event. He was a low observable engineer on the F-117A production program and has also worked for the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company as an electromagnetics group lead. He is a co-founder of CBH Technologies, a start-up developing next generation lighting technology and holds numerous patents.

Interactions are fundamental in nature. Everything we know about the Universe is based on an interaction. In complex systems exhibiting emergence, the collective interactions between co-related elements drives overall behavior, not the attributes of any individual member of the system. The process of innovation forms a complex system driven by interactions between many elements, including all of us. From this viewpoint disruptive game changing innovations are a statistical inevitability of the power law of complex systems. Power law statistics results in many small, incremental innovations and a few major disruptive ones. To illustrate this concept, two examples of potentially disruptive energy innovations will be presented. In the first example, wind panels are used to harvest energy in conditions and locations where traditional wind turbines are not viable. The wind panels can be installed on buildings in a manner similar to solar panels. They can also be readily placed along roadways, and they can be used to harvest wasted energy currently not collected in wind farms. In the second example, a novel approach to hot fusion that is compact in nature is presented. If successful, compact fusion could supply all the world's electricity needs in a generation, and illuminate the 1.3 billion people on Earth that currently have no electricity.
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