September 30: Michael Ramage, former executive vice president of ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (retired), and Jim Sweeney, Professor of Management Science and Engineering and Director of the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research; Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; Energy Modeling Forum, Stanford University

National Academy of Sciences Report: America's Energy Future: Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass

Michael Ramage and James Sweeney discuss the conclusions of the National Academy of Sciences report entitled America's Energy Future with a focus on the sections dealing with liquid transportation fuels.

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.