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 low carbon or carbon less and CO2 capture
 difficult problem.  Nukes not the only solution.  We'd have to build one new nuclear plant *each day* to keep up with increase in energy demand
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Notes from MIT Energy Initiative Forum Luncheon - 1/11/2007

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Held with in conjunction with Petroleum Club on the 43rd floor of the Exxon Mobil headquarters with the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Intro to MIT Enterprise Forum. Founded in 1978 by MIT alumni. No restriction on membership.

President Hockfield set up energy as one of two priorities for MIT (the other was merging life and physical sciences).

Set up Energy Research Council - from all schools in MIT

ERC started Energy Initiative in 9/2006

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Why it is complicate

* Few people interested in technical

* Most people interested in energy services

* US household 3-4% spend on energy services

* Energy Council - included two former US Undersecretaries of Energy

* Why MIT - MIT founded on using tech to benefit society, good at cross discipline, good at moving technology to industry, good at partnering with governments

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Perfect storm

* Energy - supply and demand
* Energy and security
* Energy and the environment

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World use of energy 450 EJ/years 14 Terawatts

Will double next century

1.4 billion no electricity next century

50 year time scale for change

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Developing world. As GDP increases energy will increase but....

Efficiency is important. US uses more energy per GDP than Europe

It will make a big difference (10% of world energy usage) if China uses energy like US or Europe

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It takes about 50 years to replace energy use. Because it is a *big* infrastructure..

Renewables 4% of energy use

Solar photovolatics 1 part per million now.

Need to start research now to change by mid century

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Energy and security

* geopolitics
* oil and gas may not be enough - oil companies have 20 year estimates of supply. No one is willing to give 50 year estimates
* delivery systems are vulnerable
* nuclear has proliferation issues
* natural disasters

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Oil and gas and security

Core issue: Demand is inelastic

What we can do - increase diversity of supply - weaken demand - efficient vehicles, coal and natural gas, hydrogen economy ???

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Energy and environment

The scientific debate is no longer about whether man made climate change is happening. The question is how much CO2 levels will need to rise before some really catastrophic happens. Best guess is that CO2 can raise another factor of 2.

How do we decarbonize energy....

Average temperature of earth is rising. 19 or 20 warmest winters since 1980. It is almost the warmest it has been in the last million years.

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Impact of climate change

- rising sea levelsre

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- great ocean conveyor belt keeps C02 in ocean for 1000 years

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what to do...

Efficiency

low carbon or carbon less and CO2 capture

difficult problem. Nukes not the only solution. We'd have to build one new nuclear plant *each day* to keep up with increase in energy demand

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50 year time frame