TEDx Anchorage talk titled: Building a Sustainable, Knowledge Based Economy for Alaska led by Alaska's First Peoples. By David Michael Karabelnikoff 2012 TEDxAnchorage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qOW19qeN3g&feature=youtu.be

2. Building a Sustainable, Knowledge
Based Economy for Alaska
*Led by Alaska’s First Peoples
By: David Michael Karabelnikoff

3. Alaska’s Most Under Appreciated
Resource ?

4. Indigenous Peoples of Alaska

5. We Are Smart ,
Efficient &
Sustainable

9. Divergent Convergent

10. State of the Arctic Technology

11. Traditional is Customized

13. Development of G-Code for mini qayaq prototyping
Alaska Natives into Science & Engineering Program
ANSEP Student Intern and Scholarship

14. Qayaq Co-Op: Proof of Concept
A limited series of 100 will generate $25,000 in
revenues.
The first two have been presold for $250

15. Q a y a q C o - O p
S o c i a l E n t e r p r i s e
+
S u p p o r t i v e H o u s i n g

16. Seoul (8h)
ejing (8h)
Tokyo (7h)
Frankfort (9.5h)
Oslo (8h)
Los Angeles (5h)
Seattle (3h)
Washington, DC (7h)

Anchorage
Resources
location

17. What does Alaska Have?
11/16

18. Building Alaskan Innovation
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1000 Alaska Natives
into PhD’s
500 STEMS fields
Bring Alaska Natives
on par with developed
world standards 1% of
population.

19. $500 Million
Investment
Costs $150
Million

21. Learning curve for power generation technologies
(IPTS Energy, Transport and Climate Change Group)

22. U.S. DOE Energy RD&D Spending
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(Kelly Gallagher, Kennedy School of Gov’t, 2-13-07)

24. Building Alaskan Innovation
• RES|The School for Renewable Energy Sciences: RES ReStarted in Alaska
• Intensive interdisciplinary PhD feeder program
• Alaska as a hub for international energy innovation
• When students return to Alaska are rewarded & honored for doing so.

25. SEMI Finalist @

26. Example
ESUSCON Microgrid - Chile

27. Village location

31. Huatacondo project
Results.
wind
inverter
Optimization results are obtained for a
forecast horizon of 48 hours
considering a sampling time of
15 minutes
Load and water
consumptions are
forecasted using
historical patterns
of the location

38. Thanks !
&
Please Remember to INDIGENIZE-
IT!