Entrepreneur, engineer and philanthropist Dr. Ed Bosarge will lead Bigelow Laboratory’s July 16 Café Scientifique discussion, titled “Renewable Energy on Islands in the Exumas Island Chain,” beginning at 6 p.m. at the Laboratory’s Ocean Science and Education Campus at 60 Bigelow Drive in East Boothbay.

Bosarge will talk about renewable energy design and construction concepts for island archipelagos, and the extent to which it is feasible to use solar, wind, and tidal energy today.

This is the third Bigelow Café Scientifique of the season, and the first summer “science conversation” to be held in the Commons of the new campus, rather than at the laboratory’s usual venue in the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor.

“Over Yonder Cay is 120 percent green,” Bosarge said. “Leftover energy is stored for emergencies, or used to supplement neighboring systems that are still ‘on the grid.’ I look forward to the opportunity to talk with the audience about the feasibility of going green, and to share my data about real time energy consumption and generation.”

The five-star hotel in the Exumas, Bahamas, is completely run on renewable energy as are aspects of a home in Southport, Maine. In 2011, the Bosarge family funded the LEED Platinum, net-zero energy education center at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

A former IBM executive, Bosarge helped design NASA’s flight control systems for the Saturn Program, and worked with Standard & Poor’s to develop methods for yield enhancement of fixed income portfolios.

He founded The Frontier Companies, where he further developed predictive financial market technologies for automated trading of major equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, subsequently licensing these systems to a worldwide client base of major financial institutions. He holds a doctorate in applied mathematics from Brown University.

The Laboratory’s Café Scientifique talks are free and open to the public. The complete 2013 summer Café Scientifique program is available on the Laboratory’s website.