Finding secure, safe and reliable sources of energy to power world economic growth will be
one of the great challenges of this century. The Harvard University Center for the
Environment invites the Harvard community to take up the challenge by participating in
this ongoing series of discussions.
THE FUTURE OF ENERGY
Spring 2010
David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK
"Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air"
TODAY
4:00 pm
Harvard University
Northwest Labs - B103
52 Oxford Street, Cambridge
How easy is it to get off our fossil fuel habit? Could typical developed countries live
on their own renewable energy sources? What do the fundamental limits of physics say?
How does our current energy consumption compare with our sustainable energy options? This
talk will offer a straight-talking assessment of the numbers, and discuss how to make
energy plans that add up.
David MacKay, author of Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air, is Chief Scientific
Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK and a Professor 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. Since 2005, he has devoted much of his time
to public teaching about energy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the
World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Climate Change.
For a copy of the book, go to:
http://www.withouthotair.com/
The Future of Energy lecture series is sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the
Environment with generous support from Bank of America. All of the lectures are free and
open to the public. View detailed lecture information at
www.environment.harvard.edu.
Contact:
Lisa Matthews
Events Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
24 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu
p. 617-495-8883
f. 617-496-0425
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