Energy Day
Tuesday 23rd June, Thornton Room, Foresight Centre
Programme
Chair Ronan McGrath
09:00 Coffee
09:20 Introduction: the energy problem (Tim Greenshaw)
09:40 Carbon emissions and climate change (Ric Williams)
10:00 Oil depletion,
energy transitions, and the impacts on business and the economy
(Simon Snowden)
10:20 Hydrocarbons: getting the last drops out and putting the CO2 back in (Steve Flint)
10:40 Coffee
11:00 The UK tidal range renewable
energy resource (Richard
Burrows)
11:20 Energy in Engineering (Ieuan Owen)
11:40 Realising the potential of solar power (Peter Weightman)
12:00 Accelerator driven sub-critical reactors and thorium (Tim Greenshaw)
12:20 A sustainable UK electrical energy infrastructure (Joe Spencer)
12:40 Lunch
Chair Ric Williams
13:40 Operation and control of power systems with distributed renewable energy embedded (Henry Wu)
14:00 Fuel cells (Chris Lucas)
14:20 Sustainable construction products (Mario Soutsos)
14:40 The Joule Centre for Energy Research (Peter Crossley)
15:00 Funding opportunities: NERC (Andrew Willmott)
15:20 Coffee
15:40 Comments on and discussion of energy research at Liverpool (Steve Holloway)
16:30 Summary of discussion and way forward
17:00 Close