Bright ideas need investment if they're to grow into commercial innovations that could shape the future energy system. But securing funding is a tough challenge.

Ahead of a day-long competitive festival of innovation known as Energy Fest, Inside Energy talks to Geert van de Wouw, Managing Director of Shell Technology Ventures (STV). Read more on http://www.shell.com/inside-energy/hunting-for-the-next-big-energy-idea.html

As the world's waste mounts, a Shell pilot plant will turn rubbish – including food, cardboard, plastics and paper – into petrol or diesel that can power cars. At the end of the film Back to the Future something amazing happens. Doc Brown appears in his time-travelling DeLorean car and, as he talks excitedly to Marty McFly, he starts pulling things out of a bin. “I need fuel,” he says, before dropping a banana skin and other bits into a hopper on the back of the car. Article courtesy of shell.com.

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