Missed most of the Burke talk, but waiting to hear Harry Gray talk about solar energy research. He is always a fun talk to hear...for my students: who can name the school he attended as an undergrad?
To entice you: I will offer 1 bonus point on the first exam to the first CHE 111 student to email me the correct answer!
ACS president Wu now doing introduction...
ReplyDelete"I'd like my nuclear power plant 93 million miles away!"
ReplyDeleteShowed a 1 megawatt solar array in the Port of Los Angeles...to run the whole country need 1.2 x 10^5 TW.
ReplyDeleteNeed to install solar panels on parking garages...
"We cannot just make electricity from sunlight, must make fuel that can be stored..."
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"We need to get electrons from water...no longer our previously cheap oil, gas, and coal".
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So, we have a winner on the Harry Gray question! To be announced in CHE 111 today!
ReplyDeleteFor those whom didn't know already- Professor Harry Gray attended Western Kentucky University as an undergrad!
ReplyDeleteHe is the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and Founding Director of the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Here is a link to his Caltech webpage: http://www.cce.caltech.edu/faculty/gray/