Dr. Alex Farrell is the director of transportation sustainability at UC Berkeley and was one of my first interviews in the project.  Here we discuss some automotive technology; touching on increases in fuel economy, 2nd generation biofuels, plug in hybrids, and hydrogen vehicles. More on Dr. Farrell after the clips.

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Alex Farrell joined the Berkeley's Energy Resources Group core faculty in February 2003. Alex's research focus is on energy and environmental technology, economics, and policy. More specifically, he has published articles on the use of technical (i.e. scientific and engineering) information in policy-making, market-based air pollution regulation (i.e. emission trading), the environmental impacts of electricity generation and use, the application of decision analytic methods to applying sustainability in decision-making, security in electric power systems, and alternative transportation fuels.

Alex has a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and a Ph.D. in Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a Research Engineer in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University where he was also the Executive Director of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, and before that he was a Research Fellow at Harvard and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Prior to entering academia he was a nuclear submarine officer and a project engineer for Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.