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29th Annual CNLS Conference May 18-22, 2009 Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Conference Proceedings, including abstracts, are available on the Agenda page.
“Energy is the single most important challenge facing humanity today.” “Researching, developing, and commercializing carbon-free primary power technologies capable of 10-30 TW by the mid-21st century could require efforts, perhaps international, pursued with the urgency of the Manhattan Project or the Apollo Space Program.” Advertising Posters: 11x17.pdf - 8.5 x 11.pdf Special for New Mexico Colleges and Universities.jpg Energy use has increased significantly since the start of the industrial revolution. This is due to increases in the human population, increased production of consumer goods, and increasing use of energy intensive appliances. Our current modes of energy production are leading to huge emissions of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere. This is a direct cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect that is responsible for global climate change. Depletion of non-renewable sources of energy, such as fossil fuels, heightens the energy cost and further increases pollution. It is a matter of international importance that technological solutions be brought to bear to alleviate this problem as well as providing alternative sources of power and energy. Solar power, wind power, hydroelectric power, nuclear power, hydrogen power, methane from buried organic material, and other renewable power sources have been advocated but, so far, no solution has been proposed that would be both affordable and complete. For the Annual Conference, CNLS focuses on an exciting, emerging, interdisciplinary field of science. This year's conference centers on the energy problem. The purpose of the conference is to provide an open forum for active interactions between academic, government and industrial researchers from different subfields to debate the issues of our energy future. The subjects of the discussion include, but are not limited to: science and technology of renewable (solar, wind, tidal, biomass, geo-thermal) and non-renewable (e.g., fossil, nuclear) energy sources, energy storage and transmission, as well as global economic, climate and geo-political issues. We hope that this will bring about a more sophisticated knowledge of energy issues and, more importantly, potential solutions to the global energy problem. Call for Posters:
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Speaker List: Massoud Amin
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Organizing Committee: “Gnana” S. Gnanakaran - LANL Administrative Contact: Adam Shipman 505-664-0187
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