Past events

Philip Lowe (until recently Director-General, Energy Directorate, European Commission)

John Mitchell, Chatham House

Issues: The quality of Britain’s transport system, the economic, social and environmental costs, and the potential for affordable and politically deliverable solutions. Iain Docherty, Professor of Public Policy and Governance, University of Glasgow Jon Shaw, Professor of Geography, Plymouth University

Dr Dan Rogers, Cardiff University In order to directly rival the Dinorwig pumped hydro station, future grid-scale energy storage systems will need a capacity of at least 1 GWh. If such a system were to be based on 100 Ah Li-ion cells, it would require the interconnection and management of around three million individual cells. Given a cell MTBF of 100 [...]

Speaker: Brock Smith, Oxcarre

Professor Gail Taylor, University of Southampton Turning green plants into liquid biofuels iscontroversial, particularly if crops with food value are used and they displace land that could have a high ecosystem service value. This seminar will explore the potential of poplar trees as non-food ligno-cellulosic energy crops. We have developed a process-based model to predict biomass yield that is able to [...]

Mike Mason, founder of Climate Care Hosted by the Oxford Energy Society Mike is currently working on a project to challenge the way we think about biomass, which he claims to be a grossly undervalued renewable energy. The microbes in cattle’s guts produce significant quantities of methane, a greenhouse gas much more potent than CO2.In his presentation Mike will expain his plans [...]

Alexander Naumov, BP

Issues: Public private partnerships in the development of the necessary infrastructure planning and distributional aspects of transport infrastructure. John Howe, Professor of Transportation Engineering & Head of Infrastructural Engineering & Physical Planning, International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic & Environmental Engineering, Delft, The Netherlands Sue Barrett, Head of Transport Infrastructure, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

B2E: a startup weekend to developenvironmentally-focused business Commencing at 5pm on the 15th February and continuing on the 16th February, participants can learn about and develop environmentally-focused business ideas in an interactive way. Bring your own business idea, or join a team and work with others. £1000 awarded to the team with the best developed idea over theweekend. Open to all [...]