Energy Seminar (Spring 2011)

Fahmida Ahmed, Joseph Stagner and Gerry Hamilton discuss the full spectrum of management practices and policies undertaken at Stanford to improve the day-to-day sustainability of the campus. (March 28, 2011)

Keywan Riahi discusses in-depth analyses of energy access and emissions controls for various populations and economic situations around the world as well as some practical economic insights. (May 23, 2011)

Mark Z. Jacobson discusses briefly the urgency of moving away from petroleum dependency before elaborating on mechanisms to enable a complete transition to wind, water and sunlight based power sources at a global scale. (May 16, 2011)

Clas Jacobson discusses the conditions in Europe that are promoting the development and adoption of highly energy efficient building systems as well as the regulatory and market pressures that are shaping the future these systems. (May 9, 2011)

Burton Richter and Matthew Wald discuss the unfolding of events in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, what vulnerabilities in the system contributed to the meltdown. (April 11, 2011)

Dan Sperling and David Stern discuss the low-carbon fuel standard in California, moving from a basic definition of the standard to its motivations and effects from the perspectives of an academic researcher and an fuels industry expert. (April 13, 2011)

Thomas Mancini discusses the state of the art in utility-scale concentrated solar power technology and elaborates on various deployments currently operating or planned for construction around the world. (April 4, 2011)