Electrifying the World: For Climate, For People

Electrifying the World: For Climate, For People

Fall (4-8 hours) | This course is completed

Online Lebanon, NH 03766 United States

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10/9/2020-10/30/2020

1:00 PM-3:00 PM EDT on Fri

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$45.00

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Burning fossil fuel exacerbates global warming, but its ample energy enables modern civilization. Oil production and atmospheric CO2 continue their rise through 2019. Even so, three billion people still get less electricity than your refrigerator uses. Replacing combustion energy with cheap, 24x7, CO2-free electricity can end energy poverty and the climate crisis.

Topics include:
*Fission, fear, and facts
*Why renewables failed: politics, science
*Heating and cooling
*Electrifying transportation: wires, batteries, synfuels
*Electrifying metals smelting, cement sintering, chemical manufacturing
*Nurturing people: water, fertilizer, prosperity, children

Hargraves, Bob

Robert Hargraves is a Brown physics PhD with an honors AB in mathematics from Dartmouth. where he returned as assistant professor and taught mathematics and the first computer science courses. He founded a software company, was an IT consultant at AD Little, and VP of medical device firm Boston Scientific. Hargraves is the author of THORIUM: Energy Cheaper Than Coal and cofounder of fission energy company ThorCon. He also writes about nuclear power for the Wall Street Journal.