[p2p-research] MacArthur Fellow to discuss reducing personal carbon footprint...

[Ryan Lanham]

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Join us for this free, live webcast:

*** O'Reilly Radar Global Issues Webcast Series: Energy Literacy -
Understand, track, and reduce your energy consumption ***

Presented by Dr. Saul Griffith, MacArthur Fellow, Wattzon.org and Makani
Power

The world has known, calculable amounts of energy are available. In this
webcast, we'll take a science look (physics and chemistry based) at all of
the earth's energy resources, both stored (nuclear and fossil fuels) as well
as renewable (solar, wind, wave, geothermal, tidal, wave, photosynthetic).

Looking at the sizes of each of these resources and comparing them to
humanity's energy consumption is far from depressing. Although humanity uses
a lot of energy, there are very large sources of non-carbon producing energy
that can be tapped to meet our needs.

If we are to make a big change in the way energy is produced and consumed we
need an "Energy Literacy" that gives people a tangible sense of their energy
consumption, and of what it takes to meet that. This talk aims to inspire
people that the problem is solvable with rational, data-driven development
of the appropriate technologies, both in clean energy generation and in
energy conservation. It aims to inject a rational perspective on the energy
debate by showing the real numbers and potential of various energy sources
to contribute to a balanced future energy supply.


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Attendance is limited, so register now. We'll send you a reminder before the
webcast. And please feel free to share this invitation with others.

Date: Wednesday, September 23 at 10 am PT
Price: Free
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes
To register:
http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z4mm6i89u8gh3fbsag784s46be9e680lt5u22ko8

Questions? Please send email to webcast at oreilly.com

You may also want to register for the second webcast in this series, taking
place October 15 at 10am PT. Professor Per F. Peterson, Chair of the
Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley,
presents Nuclear Energy: Future Directions:
http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z64qpu2udi344i46mju3cjns834as0jm9k22pnio

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About Saul Griffith
Dr. Saul Griffith has multiple degrees in materials science and mechanical
engineering and completed his PhD in Programmable Assembly and Self
Replicating machines at MIT. He is the co-founder of numerous companies
including: Low Cost Eyeglasses, Squid Labs, Potenco, Instructables.com,
HowToons, Makani Power, and WattzOn, a free online tool to quantify, track,
compare and understand the total amount of energy needed to support all of
the facets of your lifestyle.

Saul has been awarded numerous awards for invention including the National
Inventors Hall of Fame, Collegiate Inventor's award, and the Lemelson-MIT
Student prize. In 2007 he received a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant." A
large focus of Saul's research efforts are in minimum and constrained energy
surfaces for novel manufacturing techniques and other applications. Saul
holds multiple patents and patents pending in textiles, optics,
nanotechnology, and energy production. Saul co-authors children's comic
books called "HowToons" about building your own science and engineering
gadgets with Nick Dragotta and Joost Bonsen. Saul is a technical advisor to
Make magazine and Popular Mechanics. Saul is a columnist and contributor to
Make and Craft magazines.

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Ryan Lanham
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P.O. Box 633
Grand Cayman, KY1-1303
Cayman Islands
(345) 916-1712
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