September 21: Whitney Colella, Stanford University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
www.stanford.edu/~wcolella/acm
September 28: RAEL
Current projects, opportunities.
October 5: Charles Kirubi
October 12: Rodrigo Prudencia, Nth Power
Investments in renewables.
www.nthpower.com/
October 19: Dr Per Peterson, Nuclear Engineering
Developments in Nuclear Energy
October 26: Deepak Rajagopal, ERG

India's Unique Sources of Fuel for Electricity and Transportation (PDF)
November 2: Matthew St. Clair
November 9: Chris Jones
Life-Cycle Environmental Footprinting. Also, BIE Website.
http://bie.berkeley.edu/
November 16: Dr Ben Essel Hagan, Director, Institute of Industrial Research, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Ghana.
November 23: Lab Projects and Opportunities
UV Tube.
November 30: Mark Hankins, Managing Director of Energy for Sustainable Development Africa (ESDA)
Projects, opportunities.
December 7: Chris Marnay, LBL.
Microgrids: A Rare Paradigm Shift for Power Systems.
December 14:Adam Robert Brandt
December 21: RAEL Projects and Pizza
December 28: Winter Break
Prior Talks
January 19, 2004: UC Berkeley's Solar Car Team
CalSol Team Website
January 26: RAEL Updates: Alex Farrell, Matthias Fripp, Deepak Rajagopal, Fermin Reygadas.
February 2: Tim Lipman, Ryan Ramos. "Comparison of battery and hydrogen-based energy storage for future wind power in California"
February 9: Malini Ranganathan, Barbara Haya, Sujit Kirpekar. "Sugar mill Cogeneration (UNIDO)"
February 16: Sally Benson (LBL). "CO2 Sequestration."
Sally Benson Bio
February 23: Moushine Serrar. "Development of a Hybrid Gas-Solar Oven: A smooth transition to a renewable energy."
www.sunsmiles.org
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26: BIO-DIESEL MAKING DAY
March 2: The Sustainable Solutions Caravan. The 2nd annual Sustainable Solutions Caravan traveled on straight vegetable oil for fuel from California to Costa Rica sharing seeds, information, and technologies for sustainable living. Part of that team will be here to discuss the trip and the technology.
Sustainable Solutions Website
March 9: Navigant Consulting et al.
The current status of Community Choice Aggregation.
An overview of the statute; the California Public Utilities Commission Rulemaking proceeding and CEC funded (through the Local Government Commission involving 23 local governments throughout all three IOU territories) Demonstration Project and the results of the Phase One base case feasibility studies for all participants. In particular we will emphasize the outcomes regarding a greater percentage of renewables (up to 40%) in power portfolios that still allow for potential rate reduction benefits to Aggregators.
March 16: Tarja Teppo (University of Helsinki). "Energy Sector Funding."
March 23: Spring Break. No meeting.
March 30: Solar Forum: UC Berkeley Resesearch in PV and Solar Technology. Tonio Buonassisi et al. A panel of researchers will discuss their latest work.
April 6: Tonio Buonassisi et al (continued from last week). Also, Alexander Rau of Carbon Management Group (http://www.carbonmg.com/) on carbon issues and emission trading.
April 13: Rob Bailis: Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Household Energy Use in Sub-Saharan Africa.
April 20: Marcus Rother, PhD student in technology policy from University of Nuremberg, Germany. Rural electrification projects in Gabon and the Senegal.
April 27: RAEL Projects and People

FALL 2004
September 8: Whitney Colella, Stanford University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Analysis of Emission Scenarios for a U.S. Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Fleet"
wcolella@alumni.princeton.edu
Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Engineering, Stanford University
P.O. Box 19546, Stanford, California 94309-9546, USA
Phone: 650 283 2701 Fax: 501 629 2818
CV: CV
Video Presentation: Mar. 5th video
September 15: Jon Guice and John King, Point Power Systems: On-site Renewable Energy: Emerging Trends Point Power Systems
September 22: Adam Browning and JP Ross, Vote Solar: Promising Initiatives to bring PV into the mainstream in the U.S.
Presentation to RAEL (PPT)
www.votesolar.org
September 29: Matthew St. Clair, Sustainability Expert at UC Office of the President : Results of the Clean Energy Standard Implementation Plans for UC campuses
UC Green Building Policy and Clean Energy Standard Steering Committee
GARD (ASHRAE Student Chapter)
October 6: Anne Korin, Director of Policy and Strategic Planning, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security: America's oil dependence, national security, and what we can do about it. www.iags.org
October 13: Rich Hayes, Executive Director, Center for Genetics and Society: A Scenario of Economic Well-Being, Ecological Integrity and Social Equity for the 21st Century. http://www.genetics-and-society.org
Abstract
October 20: Fermin Reygadas: Desalination and UV-Tube
October 27: General Meeting
November 3: No Meeting
November 10: Daniel Sherwood, Berkeley Biodiesel Co-Op & Powerlight: Biodiesel 101
View PowerPoint Presentation
November 17: RAEL Projects Update and Opportunities
November 24: Professor Annik Magerholm Fet, Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, Norwegian University of Scienece and Technology, NTNU
December 1: Alastair Iles, ERG: Native American energy developments.
December 8: Rob Bailis, ERG:
Spring 2004
January 28: Lindsay Leveen, SLS Partners: Hydrogen-the little molecule that needs a lot. Presentation to RAEL (PPT)
February 4: Greg Van Mechelen, Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility: Sustainable Design, Bio Mass as an Alternative Building Material, Indoor Air Quality. Green Building Resources (PDF)
February 11: Matt St. Clair, UC Office of the President & ERG Alum: Implementing the UC system's Green Building and Clean Energy Policy.
February 18: Tim Lipman, Carl Mas & Ryan Firestone, ERG: CIDER-Distributed Energy Systems Modeling.
February 25: Jim Galanis, EPRI: Collaborative R&D and Market Research in the Energy Market.
March 3:John Zyskowski, Point Power Systems: Small-Scale Wind Power is a Viable Alternative.
March 10: Stephanie Ohshita, University of San Francisco: Making the Leap to Cleaner Technology--Lingering Challenges in Technology Diffusion (Examples from Chinese Industry). Presentation to RAEL (PPT),
CV (PDF)
March 17: Jennifer Edwards & Ryan Wiser, LBNL: Results from LBNL's Small Wind Analysis Tool-State Policies and Economic Potential in the U.S. Also, other Renewable Energy Activities at the Berkeley Lab.
Presentation to RAEL (PPT),
March 24: Spring Break.
April 7: Reuben Deumling, ERG.
April 14: Robert Van Buskirk, LBNL: Implementing the Sustainable Development Revolution: Experience, Progress and Plans for Eritrea, East Africa.
April 21: Joan Ogden, UC Davis. Hydrogen.
April 28:Andrew McAllister, ERG: Low Power Mode Energy Use in CA.
May 5: Susan Lynn Fischer, UC Berkeley, Environmental Health Sciences: Generating Provider Gas for Household Energy on a Village Scale, UNDP sponsored project in Jilin Province, China.

Prior Talks:
September 17: Greg Nemet, ERG: Energy R&D and Patenting.
September 24: Alex Farrell, ERG: If hydrogen is the answer, what is the question?
October 1: TBD
October 8: Bay Area Energy Entrepreneurs: RAEL Visit and Tour
October 15: Mattias Fripp, ERG: Wind resource mapping based on time of availability.
October 22: David Keith, Carnegie Mellon University: Problems with Large-Scale Wind Power.
October 29: Kara Nelson, Dept. of Civil Engineering, UCB.
November 5: Amol Phadke & Kamal Kapadia, ERG.
November 12: Malini Ranganathan, ERG: Electricity Access in Geographically Challenged Areas.
November 19: Carl Mas & Tim Lipman, ERG: Hydrogen Power Parks.
November 26: Thanksgiving Recess. No meeting.

RAEL LUNCH SEMINARS Spring 2006

Time: Wednesdays, 12:00 - 1:30 pm Place: 4152 Etcheverry Hall

Prior Talks

FALL 2004

RAEL LUNCH SEMINARS
Spring 2006

Time: Wednesdays, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Place: 4152 Etcheverry Hall