Sustainable Energy? Powering the Future

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Sustainable Energy? - Powering the Future Our use of energy and power has consequences for both present and future generations. How can we improve efficiency and sustainability in our buildings, cars and electricity generation? Speakers: Maria Kolokotroni, Colin Axon, Peter Hobson. View the latest Public Lectures at Brunel University: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/lecture-series

The Future of Energy

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Today, we consume a truly vast amount of energy - with demand continuing to skyrocket at an alarming rate. We know that producing this energy has significant environmental impacts and emitting so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere could cause catastrophic climate change. In this film, three academics look at wind power, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and material efficiency as examples of how we can cut our C02 emissions. They suggest that we must act now in order to avoid the serious risks of man-made global warming, one of our greatest challenges in the 21st century.

How the Laws of Physics Constrain Our Sustainable Energy Options

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Department of Climate Change Chief Scientific Advisor, Professor David MacKay FRS, is responsible for ensuring the best science and engineering advice underpins DECC's policy and decision-making. In addition to his role at DECC, David is Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge. 

He studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge and then obtained his PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology. He returned to Cambridge as a Royal Society research fellow at Darwin College. 

He is internationally known for his research in machine learning, information theory, and communication systems, including the invention of Dasher a software interface that enables efficient communication in any language with any muscle. 

He has taught Physics in Cambridge since 1995 and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society. 

David is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air, which is intended to help people understand the numbers around sustainable energy.