SunHydrogen Inc (HYSR)

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Monday, February 1, 2016 (All day)
Elings Hall 1601
Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities for Future Sustainable Production of Chemicals and Fuels


Date & Venue: Monday, February 1, 2016, Elings Hall 1601, UC Santa Barbara

Online Registration:
http://www.mrl.ucsb.edu/seminars-and-workshops/2016-terawatts-teragrams-teraliters

Purpose:

This annual workshop follows two previous events which brings together forward-thinking engineers, scientists, economists, and government leaders to talk, argue, speculate, and dream a little about what might be possible if only we could ………. We are looking to have relatively brief (15-20 minute) provocative forward-thinking presentations to stimulate lively discussions moderated by a panel of top young graduate students and post-docs. Our hope is to have discussions on processes and problems that are not presently part of the central R&D activities in industry, but that might be there in the future if major fundamental problems in chemical and material science and engineering were solved or barriers removed. We also are examining social and systemic barriers to making significant progress in sustainability. For 2016 the preliminary program is as follows:

Morning Session: Challenges and Options

· Today’s renewable “strategy” and the transfer of wealth from rich to the poor.

· The future(s) of food and the chemical pathways and resources in food production.

· New Sustainable Feedstocks and Intermediates: What might they be? Do we know all the options?

· New Sustainable Processes: Closing all the loops from cradle to grave – think before we build.

· Abundant, carbon dioxide free, electricity and chemicals from nuclear reactions: Opportunities and Challenges.

· Big ideas that just might not be so crazy and potentially our only choice: in situ chemical processing, productive geo-engineering.

Afternoon Session: Social, Governmental, and Economic Barriers

· Social and media challenges of communicating the existence of a major technical challenge and the risks of solutions to the public and between technical disciplines.

· How our governments are helping and hindering innovation in sustainability – and what we need to do to change it.

· If the global decarbonisation challenge represents a business opportunity of enormous scale ($80 Trillion), why is it not happening?

Organizing committee: Eric McFarland (UQ/UCSB), Sarah Anderson (UCSB), Tom Jaramillo (Stanford), Craig Hawker (UCSB), Chris Greig (University of Queensland)

Visitor Information:
We have set aside a number of rooms at the Best Western South Coast Inn and also rooms at the Harbor View Inn for your consideration:

Best Western South Coast Inn (10 minutes from campus)- 805-967-3200
http://bestwesterncalifornia.com/hotels/best-western-plus-south-coast-inn
We have secured the special rate of $135/night ($150/Fri. & Sat.) - please reference the '"New Frontiers Workshop" when booking your room and please note the deadline to receive this rate is January 15th!

We will have UCSB vans available for transportation to and from UCSB each day.