October 14: Panel with Stanford Faculty:

* Sally Benson, Director Global Climate and Energy Project

* Pamela Matson, Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences

* Lynn Orr, Director Precourt Institute for Energy

* Stephen Schneider, Melvin & Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies

* Jim Sweeney, Director Precourt Energy Efficiency Center

* Buzz Thompson, Co-Director Woods Institute for the Environment

Sustainable Energy Future: Scale, Tradeoffs, and Co-Benefits. The panelists discuss the interconnected aspects of future sustainable energy systems with a focus on the scales, tradeoffs, and co-benefits involved.

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.