Browsing Open Forum on Energy and the Environment by Title
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Assessment of tidal streams as an energy source for the United States
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-11-18)Tidal streams are high velocity sea currents created by periodic horizontal movement of the tides, often magnified by local topographical features such as headlands, inlets to inland lagoons, and straits. Tidal stream ... -
Biofuels: Current Technology and New Developments
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-10-07)The development of production routes for fuels and chemicals from alternative resources (e.g. coal, gas, biomass) is one of the great scientific challenges of the 21st century. Biomass is a particularly interesting resource ... -
Combustion R&D Challenged for Zero CO₂ Power Generation Cycles
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CO₂ Capture Technology: A Chemical Engineering Perspective
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Direct Sunlight to Fuels
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Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-09-09)Energy conversion and storage devices, such as fuel cells, batteries, and redox-flow batteries, have made remarkable advances over the last decade, and these are expected to play an ever growing role in meeting our energy ... -
Emerging Solar Thermal Technologies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-04-15)Sheldon Jeter's presentation is an overview of solar thermal power concepts, technology, and deployments from historical to modern to current times. -
Energy Perspective: Building Options
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-03-03)Dr. Shelton will give a brief overview of U.S. energy utilization highlighting how building energy systems impact the U.S. energy demand. A review of current building energy technologies for lighting, heating, cooling, and ... -
Energy Saving in the Built Environment
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-03-31)A brief overview of the energy saving opportunities in the built environment followed by a review of energy saving strategies for new "green building" design as well as retrofits of existing buildings. The talk will ... -
Feasibility and Technology Options for CO₂ Capture From Transportation and Distributed Sources
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From Zero to One: Getting Technology from the Lab into the Real World
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Global Climate Change and its Impacts on Georgia
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III-N Light Emitting Diodes for Energy Efficient Illumination
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Modern Photovoltaic Manufacturing
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Molecular Design of Liquid Sorbents for CO₂ Capture
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A New CO₂ Capture Platform: Hollow Fiber Adsorbents for Post-Combustion Recovery
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Organic Photovoltaics
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A Paleoclimate Perspective on Global Warming
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Pathways to Inherently Efficient System-Wide Thermal Energy Utilization
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-02-03)Efforts at improving energy efficiency have typically involved component or device efficiency improvements, which limits energy use reductions to a few percent, for specific end uses. While such improvements are desirable, ... -
Personal Reflections on Climate Change
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-11-04)By almost any measure, life in a developed country in 2010 is easy compared to all other times in human history. I will give a personal perspective whether the real and perceived challenges to the globe associated with ...