# Bill Gross on new energy

Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab, talks about his life as an inventor, starting with his high-school company selling solar energy plans and kits. Learn here about a groundbreaking system for solar cells -- and some questions we haven't yet solved.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2009
- Runtime: 19 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/BillGross_2003)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/BillGross_2003?play=1)