Energy Game Changers

28 Mar 2012

This sold-out event took place at the Royal Institute of British Architects on 28th March 2012.

Event info:

Part of the Shell “Switched On” series of events on our energy future

Ever wish you could hear about some more positive ideas on how to tackle climate change? Well, here is your chance. At this event on energy game changers organised by Intelligence² in partnership with Shell and the International Herald Tribune, we put aside for a moment the gloomy predictions about climate armageddon and looked into the exciting solutions being offered by the world of science.

We brought you five brilliant technical innovators who described a scenario decades into the future when the desert will bloom with solar panel farms, nuclear reactors will produce energy from their own nuclear waste, people will travel in low-emission driverless car trains, coal will have been made clean and green, and high-tech, small-scale homesteads will be feeding the 10 billion.

Speakers

Colin Tudge

Biologist, author and co-founder of the Campaign for Real Farming
Professor Michael Düren

Physicist at Giessen University and co-founder of the Desertec foundation
Robin Grimes

Professor of Materials Physics at Imperial College, London
Professor Stuart Haszeldine

Scottish Power Professor of Carbon Capture and Storage, Edinburgh University
Katrin Bennhold

Staff Correspondent, International Herald Tribune
Professor Wilhelm Schäfer

Vice-President Research of the University of Paderborn and Executive Director of the RailCab project