Internationally known chemistry Professor Nathan Lewis of the California Institute of Technology will give a talk at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Aug. 13 titled "The Global Energy Perspective: Chemical Challenges and Sustainable Energy Conversion."
Lewis will talk about scientific, technical and economic challenges involved with the widespread adoption of renewable energy technologies. The talk will involve global fossil fuel estimates and comparisons to costs of renewable fuels in the coming decades, carbon emission constraints, research and development requirements for carbon-free power and the scientific innovation required for such a transition.
Free and open to the public, the talk will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Duane Physics room G1B30. The lecture is co-sponsored by the University of Colorado Energy Initiative, the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory and the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy. The Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory is a joint venture of CU-Boulder, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Colorado State University.
A former Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and Presidential Young Investigator, Lewis' research includes the study of light-induced electron transfer reactions and the chemistry of semiconductor liquid interfaces. Lewis has been a Caltech professor since 1991 and has been the principal investigator of the Beckman Institute Molecular Materials Resource Center there since 1992.
Lewis' lecture is part of the workshop "Efficient Conversion of Solar Energy to Electricity and Fuels: Critical Research Directions and Tutorial." For more information visit .
The talk by Lewis comes the week before a two-day symposium at CU-Boulder Aug. 22-23 featuring a number of the nation's top climate scientists, energy experts and environmental journalists discussing the science behind climate change and the path to a national energy strategy. For information on the symposium visit the Web at /.