Date:
Saturday, 16 March, 2024 - 12:15 to 13:15
Event location:
Wolfson LT Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
Booking opens at 9.30am on Monday 12 February via the outreach website: https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/outreach
(Lecture at 12:15 and repeated at 14:45)
Professor Erwin Reisner will present emerging technologies that can use the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as well as biomass and plastic waste as precious resources in a solar-powered economy. He will make a case for solar energy and the need to produce sustainable fuels and chemicals for energy storage, transportation and the chemical industry. The concept and prototypes of solar-powered devices to synthesise renewable energy carriers and chemicals for a post-fossil future will be presented.