Institute of Advanced Studies
What type of Energy for the future of humanity?
Date: Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Time: 6:00pm-7.00pm
Location: Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, UWA
Cost: Free. No RSVP required.
Enquiries: iasuwa@admin.uwa.edu.au or (+61 8) 6488 1340
(The nearest carpark is P3 off Hackett Drive Entrance 1)
As the age of cheap oil and fossil fuels is coming to an end, humanity will face an energy crisis.
Many alternative energy sources have already been identified. However, there is no optimal solution to replace fossil fuels on a short time scale with new sources that are economically viable and environmentally sustainable in the long term. History reports disastrous consequences for human societies that overexploited their resources in a non sustainable way1, and arguably this is exactly what is happening today on a global scale.
This public lecture aims at describing a general picture of the looming energy crisis2 outlining some possible solutions.
1 Jared Diamond, ‘Collapse’ Viking Penguin (2005).
2 N. Armaroli, V. Balzani. “The Future of Energy Supply: Challenges and Opportunities”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 46, 52 (2007).
Biographical details
Professor Federico Rosei is Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Université du Québec, Varennes (QC) Canada and 2009 Gledden Senior Visiting Fellow, UWA
Dr. Rosei’s research interests focus on the properties of nanostructured materials, and on how to control their size, shape, composition, stability and positioning when grown on suitable substrates. He has extensive experience in fabricating, processing and characterizing inorganic, organic and biocompatible nanomaterials.
