Powering the Planet
Presenter: Dan Nocera
Published: September 2008
Age: 18-22 and upwards
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Tags: energy
Type: Lectures
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Dan Nocera of MIT gives a review of the world’s current power demand and projects it forward to 2030. By using readily available data he shows that providing the increase needed is remarkably difficult given the need to restrict the production of carbon dioxide.nHe introduces a new electrochemical route to using solar energy efficiently – released in July 2008 – see lecture ‘A Revolution in Solar Energy Production’.