Events
Monday, September 12, 2016 - 3:30pm to Monday, December 5, 2016 - 4:30pm
Wisconsin Energy Institute, Room 1115
The Wisconsin Energy Institute is helping facilitate a series of seminars focused on University of Wisconsin–Madison expertise in sustainable energy. The series will allow students and the public to explore sustainable energy solutions from the small to large, learn about the challenges facing sustainable energy and interact with experts from across campus.
Monday, October 10, 2016 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Deluca Forum
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
330 N. Orchard Street
Madison, WI 53726
2015 saw an international agreement to limit the mean global temperature rise since the Industrial Revolution to 1.5-2 degrees C. Join Frank H. Shu, University Professor Emeritus University of California at Berkley and San Diego will present technologies developed by his team that can achieve a reversal of climate change. (1) Supertorrefaction uses the heat capacity of molten salts to convert waste biomass into biocarbon. (2) Two-fluid molten-salt breeder-reactors operate on the renewable thorium fuel cycle.