Past events

Speaker: Shamil Yenikeyeff, OIES & AhmedMehdi

Bill David ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, OX11 0QX and Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QR Energy production and energy security issues make headline news but “the role for energy storage is poorly described in many pathways to a low-carbon economy”. For most of the first decade of the 21st century, hydrogen was [...]

Professor Jerson Kelman, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro About 5% of the Brazilian population live in the northeast corner of the country. They share the same language, culture, institutions, education and political system as the other 95%. Yet, they have by far the lowest per capita income. What really differentiates this region from the rest of the country is hydrological [...]

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 [...]