This Week no RAEL lunch meeting will take place. Instead we suggest attending following event on American Smart Grid Policy at the Center for Environmental Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy.
Electrified vehicles present novel solutions to three critical energy problems. First, the transportation sector is one of the world's largest sources of the greenhouse gases (GHGs) whose accumulation in the atmosphere drives global climate change. Electrified vehicles offer a means of adapting the electricity sector's multiple low-carbon fuel sources to the provision of transportation services.
Dan Kammen greets the announcement of the first Chinese factory for solar panels in the US as a sign of the increasingly important collaboration between Chinese and American leaders in the renewable-energy industry.
On Nov 16. Suntech Power made its aims public to boost its share of the U.S. market with a solar-panel manufacturing plant to be built in Arizona.
The 2nd annual Green Tech Summit is a catalyst for U.S.-China project-to-project partnerships to reduce CO2 emissions.
At the 2009 Green Tech Summit, leading green technology CEOs, venture capitalists and academics will engage in a dialogue on how U.S.-China project-to-project partnerships can reduce CO2, generate green jobs, and ensure energy independence.
Dan Kammen sends letter of congratulation to eJeepney sponsors on the occasion of launching an electric public transport system in Makati.
Lunch Seminar: WE CARE Solar: solar electric systems for rural Nigerian hospitals. Laura Stachel M.D. M.P.H. is the co-founder and medical director of WE CARE Solar, is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist who is currently pursuing her doctorate in public health at UCB. Her dissertation is focused on reducing maternal mortality in developing countries.
I just finished carting over all of the stuff from the old website into the latest & greatest version of drupal. For the moment, I'm keeping the new one at rael-test.berkeley.edu, but I'm going to swap it out as soon as I get the menus sorted out and get some others' eyes to look for problems.
Energy science and policy for Copenhagen and beyond. Dan Kammen is the class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy and faculty member of the Energy and Resources Group and the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley. As member of the IPCC he was awarded the Nobel Peace Price. New York Times science journalist Matt Wald will join this last session, too.
Tuesdays, Noon-1:30 p.m., November 10.
David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way
This is part of a seminar series: Strategic Issues in Energy Resources and Politics (October 6 to November 10)
Dan Kammen participated in the recent US-China Strategic Forum on Clean Energy Cooperation, which gathered more than 300 guests including former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, high-ranking officials from both governments and representatives of international organizations.
Cyrus Wadia, faculty member at the LBNL and RAEL, is using the abundant pyrite (also called fool's gold) to grow nanocrystals for cheaper photovoltaics. But instead of digging for false promises, he is making pure nanoparticles of the compound from iron and sulfur salts to turn fool's gold into real treasure: an inexpensive solar cell.His promising research was featured in a recent MIT Technology Review.