Fighting COVID-19 While Mitigating Global Climate Change
Killing two birds with one stone: fighting COVID-19 while mitigating global climate change
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Women in Research at #LINO19: Lala Rukh Memon from Pakistan
#LINO19 young scientist Lala Rukh Memon from Pakistan about her career path, her passion for science, her struggles and successes.
Interdisciplinarity – More than a Buzzword
Young scientist Mallory Ladd explains why interdisciplinarity should be the weapon of choice in the battle against climate change.Young scientist Mallory Ladd explains why interdisciplinarity should be the weapon of choice in the battle against climate change.
The future of Nigeria’s power sector post-reform
8 reasons the ‘Power Sector Reform Roadmap’ may not be enough.
Energy storage, rare metals and the next ice age
The holy grail of energy storage may lie in chemical bonds, but a process for making this happen remains unknown. All of the Nobel Laureates who weighed in yesterday on a chemical energy conversion panel agreed on this much. “Replacement of liquid fossil fuels is still in far reach,” said moderator Wolfgang Lubitz, director of […]
Steven Chu talks innovation, energy, climate change and awareness
Former Secretary of Energy and Nobel Laureate Steven Chu gave a wide-ranging and engaging talk at Lindau about science innovation and a realistic appraisal of problems. There were two main messages in his presentation: first, that scientific innovation has often thwarted doom and gloom prognostications, and second, that an accurate recognition of the nature of […]
Energy for Early Birds
This morning my alarm rings at 5:50 a.m.. It is my Science Breakfast Morning of the week: ‘How does Surface Science Contribute to Solve Global Energy and Environmental Issues?’. Star guest of this event upon invitation of the Republic of Korea is Gerhard Ertl, the Surface Master and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2007. Arriving […]
Nature Lindau video: The energy endgame
In the next 100 years or so, we will run out of fossil fuels. In this film, Nobel laureates Mario Molina and Robert Laughlin challenge three young physicists to think seriously about the energy endgame and their children’s futures. Molina believes
The Future of Energy
The Future of Energy has been a topic with the panel discussion “Energy and Sustainability” at the 60th Meeting of Nobel Laureates at Lindau in 2010. Part of the discussion and different quotes from the speakers and others. Video partly in German and English.