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It is vital to have the means to assess the environmental, social and economic impacts of different approaches to energy production and storage for the future. In this session various energy sources will be surveyed, including nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, fossil fuels, plant biomass, solar energy and geothermal energy, and their possible roles in a future sustainable energy scenario examined.
9.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m..
Chair: Paolo Milani and Enrico Bellone |
| Peter Atkins
- Department of Chemistry, Oxford University, UK - The nature of energy |
| János Béer - Chemical and Fuel Engineering, MIT, USA - Fossil fuel based power generation in a carbon constrained world |
| Maurizio Cumo - Department of Nuclear Engineering and Energy Conversions, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy - Nuclear fission: present and future |
| Stephen Connors - Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, MIT, USA - Large-scale introduction of renewables: designing for the dynamics |
| Michael Bevan - Head, Cell and Developmental Biology Department, UK - Plant biomass for sustainable fuel production |
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| 2.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. |
Chair: Renato Angelo Ricci and Peter Atkins |
Carlo Rubbia - Nobel Laureate in Physics, Italy - Innovation: the key to future renewables |
Zhores Alferov - Nobel Laureate in Physics, Russia - Is solar energy conversion an option to solve the energy problems in future? |
Louis Schlapbach - EMPA (Swiss Federal Lab for Materials Science and Technology), Switzerland - New materials for energy technologies |
Jefferson Tester - Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT, USA - The future of geothermal energy as a sustainable pathway |
Jeffrey Byron - California Energy Commission, USA - The Many Faces of Energy Efficiency |
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| Social event: h.8.00 pm Concert at Scuola Grande di San Rocco |
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