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Dr. Daniel G. Nocera - THE Solution to the Global Energy Challenge
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The supply of secure, clean, sustainable energy is arguably the most
important scientific and technical challenge facing humanity in the 21st
century. Rising living standards of a growing world population will
cause global energy consumption to double by mid-century and triple by
the end of the century. Even in light of unprecedented conservation, the
additional energy needed is simply not attainable from long discussed
sources these include nuclear, biomass, wind, geothermal and
hydroelectric. The global appetite for energy is simply too much.
Petroleum-based fuel sources (i.e., coal, oil and gas) could be
increased. However, deleterious consequences resulting from external
drivers of economy, the environment, and global security dictate that
this energy need be met by renewable and sustainable sources. The
dramatic increase in global energy need is driven by 3 billion
low-energy users in the non-legacy world and by 3 billion people yet to
inhabit the planet over the next half century. The capture and storage
of solar energy at the individual level personalized solar energy
drives inextricably towards the heart of this energy challenge by
addressing the triumvirate of secure, carbon neutral and plentiful
energy. This talk will place the scale of the global energy issue in
perspective and then discuss how personalized energy (especially for the
non-legacy world) can provide a path to a solution to the global energy
challenge.
Daniel G. Nocera is the Henry Dreyfus Professor of
Energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Director of the
Solar Revolutions Project and Director of the Eni Solar Frontiers Center
at MIT. His group pioneered studies of the basic mechanisms of energy
conversion in biology and chemistry. He has recently accomplished a
solar fuels process that captures many of the elements of photosynthesis
outside of the leaf. This discovery sets the stage for a storage
mechanism for the large scale, distributed, deployment of solar energy.
He has been awarded the Eni Prize (2005), IAPS Award (2006), Burghausen
Prize (2007), Harrison Howe Award (2008), ACS Inorganic Chemistry Award
(2009) and the U.N. Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organizations
Science and Technology Award (2009) for his contributions to the
development of renewable energy. He is a member of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He was named
as Times Magazine 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Nocera
is a frequent guest on TV and radio and is regularly featured in print.
In 2008, he founded Sun Catalytix, a company committed to bringing
personalized energy to the non-legacy world
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