Past Events
March 31, 2011
The HBS Automotive Club is hosting McKinsey and Co. Principle Russell Hensley this Thursday (3/31) at 3:30 PM to discuss the future of the electric car. The lecture is open to Sloan students and MIT undergrads as well, so please forward this e-mail along to the MIT Transportation Club, Energy Club, and anyone else who might be interested (including any HKS Clubs). Thanks!
March 31, 2011
Professor Katherine Freeman, Penn State University
March 30, 2011
This Energy 101 talk will present the basic technical concepts behind Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), a process by which CO2 emissions from fossil fuel utilization can be avoided by separating -or "capturing"- this gas from the emitting source and permanently storing it underground. Emphasis will be placed on the fuel utilization and capture processes prior to CO2 storage.
March 30, 2011
Supercritical CO2 injected in the subsurface is highly mobile and buoyant. We discuss the implications that this mobility has for commercial-scale CO2 capture and storage (CCS) projects. We will address the current legal landscape for CO2 storage, and argue that the ?American Model? of pore space ownership will enable the nascent CCS industry. We then consider some of the physical implications of CO2?s mobility, in the context of this legal landscape.
March 29, 2011
Organisms have been making exquisite inorganic materials for over 500 million years. Although these materials have many desired physical properties such as strength, regularity, and environmental benign processing, the types of materials that organisms have evolved to work with are limited. However, there are many properties of living systems that could be potentially harnessed by researchers to make advanced technologies that are smarter, more adaptable, and that are synthesized to be compatible with the environment.