Podcasts about energy resources engineering

David McColl is currently the Executive Director of Stanford Climate Ventures and is a Graduate Research Fellow at the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy & Finance. He is also a Partner at Echelon, an early-stage venture capital firm, and its affiliate Shoreline Capital. David received a B.S. in Management Science & Engineering and an M.S. in Energy Resources Engineering from Stanford University. He is a nationally-ranked beach volleyball player. About VSC Ventures: For 20 years, our award-winning ⁠⁠PR agency VSC⁠⁠ has worked with innovative startups on positioning, messaging, and awareness. We are bringing that expertise to help climate startups with storytelling and narrative building. Last year, general partners Vijay Chattha and Jay Kapoor raised a $21M fund to co-invest in the most promising startups alongside leading climate funds. Through the conversations on our show CLIMB by VSC, we're excited to share what we're doing at VSC and VSC Ventures on climate innovation with companies like ⁠⁠Ample⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Actual⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Sesame Solar⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Synop⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Vibrant Planet⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Zume⁠⁠ among many others.

Clean energy technology deployment will play a major role in meeting the Biden administration's “net zero by 2050” goal. To stay on target, America will need to shore up clean energy supply chains, reduce the cost of existing technologies, and fund innovation for up and coming solutions – like carbon capture and storage and fusion energy.  The Energy Team at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is a driving force behind these efforts. With its expertise in policy and science, the team helps develop innovation priorities that facilitate a swift, equitable energy transition.  So what is the strategy for deploying the clean energy technology needed to meet net zero goals? What is the timeline for emerging technologies? And how does the OSTP's Energy Team plan to make the transition equitable?  This week host Bill Loveless talks with Sally Benson about the OSTP's history as an innovation engine, and its current role in meeting net zero by 2050 goals. Sally is the deputy director for energy and the chief strategist for the energy transition at OSTP. She helps oversee the Net Zero Game Changers Initiative, which funds innovation in clean energy technologies for building heating and cooling, aviation, nuclear fusion, and other areas. Sally joined the Biden administration as the Precourt Family Professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University. She has also held various positions at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

With all the concerns over drought and climate change, there is new thinking about how to deal with changes related to the environment and automobiles.   Asking big questions related to climate is the focus of an effort by Stanford University analyzes the role of automobiles in access to “clean energy,” and how transportation can be more equitable.  To discuss further, KCBS Radio news anchor Patti Reising was joined by Margot Gerritsen, Professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Capturing and storing carbon dioxide is a crucial part of the decarbonization toolkit and momentum is growing fast as companies and governments work on how they can reach net zero by 2050. Susan Kish speaks to Sally Benson, Precourt Family Professor in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University, about the potential for scaling up carbon capture and the realities of storing CO2 safely and permanently.

In this episode, we speak with the brilliant and experienced Jef Caers. Jef is the Professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University, as well as the Director of Stanford's Center for Earth Resources Forecasting. Jef and Ash have a pleasant conversation which entertains both the academic and pragmatist in all of us--eager to learn, theorize and trend, just as much as we are determined to result in viable commercial success.

Sally Benson is the Co-Director of Precourt Institute for Energy, Director of Global Climate and Energy Project, Professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford. There have recently been a lot of changes in how we consume our energy - technologies such as solar and wind are well known and are a great alternative to fossil fuels. However, new sources of energy are appearing on the horizon. In this episode I was amazed about the research Stanford engineers are conducting about the next wave of disruptive energy technology. In the show we discuss: What our future electricity grids may consist of The technology with the biggest upside that no one yet knows about Potential for carbon capture and storage And a hell of a lot more! If you want to find out more, I highly recommend you visit: http://gcep.stanford.edu/ Which constantly gives updates on the exciting research at Stanford.   Enjoy!

Stephen Schneider, Professor of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford, and Karim Farhat, graduate student in Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford, discuss their experiences attending the COP15 climate summit. (February 24, 2010)

Sally Benson, Stanford Professor of Energy Resources Engineering, discusses current research at GCEP in energy solutions for the next 10-20 years and explains the criteria and interests that GCEP desires in upcoming research proposals. (October 1, 2008)

Mathematics in Energy Production by Margot Gerritsen, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Mechanical and Civil & Environmental Engineering by courtesy, Stanford University Part 1: Mathematics’ role in extracting fossil fuels. Part 2: Math’s use in alternative energies.