November 11: Professor Michael McGehee, Director of the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics, Materials Science and Engineering Department

Solar Cell Technology in 2009 and Beyond

Related Link(s): www.stanford.edu/group/mcgehee/

Michael McGehee discusses the state-of-the-art in currently competing solar photovoltaic technologies, including the future prospects and potential problems involved with each.

1. Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Oil Substitutes
2. U.S. Energy Future: Transportation Fuels
3. Sustainable Energy Systems: Scale, Tradeoffs, and Co-Benefits
4. Economic Analysis of the Solar Industry
5. Solar Photovoltaic Installation and Financing
6. Solar Cell Technology in 2009 and Beyond
7. Solar Energy at Scale
8. Communicating Climate Science in a Changing Media Landscape

The Energy Seminar is produced by the Woods Institute and the Precourt Institute for Energy (PIE) at Stanford University. and is comprised of an interdisciplinary series of talks primarily by Stanford experts on a broad range of energy topics.



The Precourt Institute for Energy (PIE) has been established as a new independent institute at Stanford that engages in a broad-ranging, interdisciplinary program of research and education on energy -applying fundamental research to the problem of supplying energy in environmentally and economically acceptable ways, using it efficiently, and facing the behavioral, social, and policy challenges of creating new energy systems for the U.S. and the world.