Industry sector: Education/Research
Presidential Lectures on Clean Energy and Sustainability
Photonics Building Room 206 Auditorium, 8 Saint Mary's Street, Boston, MA
This lecture is no charge and open to the public.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
3:30 pm – 4:15 pm
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Nathan S. Lewis
George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry
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“Where in the World Will Our Energy Come From?”
Where in the world will our energy come from? What would it take for the world to get away from fossil fuels and switch over to renewable energy? It takes more than willingness to buy a Prius or to have solar panels installed on your roof. If we want to use wind, solar thermal, solar electric, biomass, hydroelectric and geothermal energy it will take a lot of planning, and willingness on the part of governments and industry. It takes R&D investment, a favorable price per unit of energy to get anyone to produce alternative energy, and plenty of resources to create those energy sources. Lewis will discuss these and other hurdles-technical, political, and economic- that must be overcome before the widespread adoption of renewable energy technologies.
Dr. Nathan Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, has been on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology since 1988 and has served as Professor since 1991. He has also served as the Principal Investigator of the Beckman Institute Molecular Materials Resource Center at Caltech since 1992. From 1981 to 1986, he was on the faculty at Stanford, as an assistant professor from 1981 to 1985 and as a tenured Associate Professor from 1986 to 1988. Dr. Lewis received his Ph.D in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Location: Photonics Building Room 206 Auditorium, 8 Saint Mary's Street, Boston, MA