Sheldon Jeter's presentation is an overview of solar thermal power concepts, technology, and deployments from historical to modern to current times.

Worldwide consumption of electricity is expected to nearly double over the next two-and-a-half decades. International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts that meeting this demand for power will require over 5,000 GW of new ...

2010 program of the “Open Forum on Energy and the Environment”, presented on January 14, 2010, from 4:30 PM-6:00 PM in room 1116, Marcus Nanotechnology Building on the Georgia Tech campus.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...