New Love, New Company
New Love, New Company
Though overwhelmed by Iris’s death, at 84 Ovshinsky was not yet done with life and invention, nor was he ready to stop working towards solving urgent social problems like climate change. He found a new love in the physicist Rosa Young, who had been a colleague for over twenty years. In 2007 they married and began a new life together. Ovshinsky also wanted to resume the research efforts that had been terminated with his ouster from ECD. With Rosa’s encouragement, he devoted his own savings to starting a new company, Ovshinsky Innovation, where he pursued his characteristically ambitious ideas for building a gigawatt machine, a solar panel production plant whose vastly increased capacity would, he believed, at last make solar power “cheaper than coal.”
Keywords: Ovshinsky, Rosa Young, climate change, Ovshinsky Innovation, gigawatt machine
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