Be a scientist, save the world! Nanotechnology and energy

POLY 1

Wade Adams, wadams@rice.edu, Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology, 301H Space Science & Tech. Bldg, 6100 Main, Houston, TX 77005, Amy Jaffe, Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology, MS-100, Houston, TX 77005, and Richard E. Smalley, Department of Chemistry, Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, MS 100, Houston, TX 77005.
Energy is both the single most important problem facing humanity today and a magnificent scientific and technical opportunity. We will need a minimum of ten terawatts (the equivalent of 150 million barrels of oil per day) from a new, clean energy source by 2050. Solving this problem will demand revolutionary breakthroughs in the physical sciences and engineering, and particularly in nanotechnology. This talk will discuss the magnitude of the problem, some enabling nanotechnology revolutions that will be needed to address the problem, the people/workforce issues that impinge on the problem, and some thoughts on how to organize to solve the problem.
 

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