Energy@Berkeley: Solutions for Global Warming

Dr. Steve Chu
1997 Nobel laureate Physics
Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
UC Berkeley Professor of Physics and of Molecular and Cell Biology

Presented by Berkeley Club of London with the generous support of Accenture, AXA Insurance, Cisco Systems and OpenLink Financial

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Dorchester Hotel

Over 100 distinguished alumni and guests gathered for a discussion with Nobel laureate Steve Chu on the latest research on global warming. The discussion was chaired by Berkeley Club of London leader Mr. Richard Simmons CBE.

Video is courtesy of CFrancis Ware www.fware.com.uk with cameramen Robert O'Hara and Frank Morgan.

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[ForexReviewsCentral]

He is gifted. 

[33noa33]

HELPING NATURE FOR BETTER CLIMATE

Use mighty power of nature

In the northwestern Australia, we have huge tides,

huge deserts, huge evaporation and huge dry rivers and lakes.

Huge 12m tidal erosion can revive old dry paleo dormant once mighty rivers, creeks and lakes,

desalinate the country and change deserts to rain forests to provide more rain across Australia

World population is growing rapidly and we need more energy, food, land and water.

see: Mitic CLIMATE ENGINEERING

[RichLOAguy]

No. No tubes.a barrel floating in the ocean will grow an algae farm around it, ask any sea captain. Basically floating balls attached with wire, and seeded with seaweed. Should require little to no maintenance.

The Photosynthesis would play a part, but the life forms themselves would be made of carbon.

Also. Fish ponds covered with algae support double the amount of fish so would help fish populations.

Also.100 000 acre seaweed frams could be towed to distressed countries for food or fuel.

[Thymonico]

Are you talking about using their photosynthesis to absorb more CO2?

If so, this is a difficult idea. The maintainance of 100 000 acres of floating algae tubes, would be costly and a practical effieciency barrier.

Algae technologies are great! A much better alternative than miscanthus, corn, sugar (c-4 photosynthetic land plants) for producing bioethanol! :)

I think we need a fission based energy. Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR), Terrapower and conventional ones are great!

[RichLOAguy]

The solution is very simple. Start off with floating cables in the ocean and start seaweed (algae) growing.

Start with 1 acre then make it 2 acres, then keep it going.

Every company producing emissions could sponsor enough "ocean seaweed rainforest" to alleviate their guilt and punish them.

Eventually we could have Hundreds of thousands of acres of seaweed farms. This life would alleviate carbon footprints and allow filter.

If a country has a drought they can eat a few acres, or fuel.

[stopglobalwarming08]

Dr. Steve Chu is awesome! thanks UCBerkely for posting this video!

[mkeeeee]

IIBuGzeeYY, where education is valued and intelligence is prevalent, there tends to be a bias toward the far left. Perhaps had you received a more liberal education your grammar would be adequate. Perhaps if you received an education conscious of the left's open-minded ideals your thought wouldn't be clouded by politically-driven ignorances.

[dwijaa]

bbjorn all the best. Never mind the detractors. No statue was ever erected for a critic. All the best once again. FRM: National Institute of Technology, India

[chewbaca1989]

I propose the Religious global warming advocates stop eating beef. Case close.

[Baurzhan1963]

Global warming of a climate, is the fact which is not requiring proofs.

The problem of global warming and it is obviously necessary to plant as much as possible trees. can not you plant trees, we are already doing it for you.

Each person, should in the life, construct the house, grow up the son and plant a tree.