Energy, CO2, and Climate Change: Challenges for China February 23, 2006

Energy, CO2, and Climate Change: Challenges for China

Franklin M. (Lynn) Orr, Jr., Keleen and Carlton Beal Professor of Petroleum Engineering, Director of the Global Climate and Energy Project, Stanford University

Meeting the world's energy needs and at the same time reducing emissions of greenhouse gases is one of the grand challenges humans must face in this century. China's situation illustrates the magnitude of the challenge as well as any place in the world. Its economy is growing rapidly, energy shortages abound, and a primary source of energy is coal. This talk reviews China's current and projected future emissions of carbon dioxide, examines alternatives for meeting the combined goals of increasing energy supply and reducing emissions, and describes research underway to provide more options to meet the challenges China faces. China's Economy Colloquium Series

Lynn Orr focuses his research activities on the interactions of fluid phase behavior with multiphase flow in porous media, the design of gas injection processes for enhanced oil recovery, and C02 sequestration in subsurface porous media. In August 2005, Dr. Orr and the Global Climate and Energy Project hosted an international conference at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, to explore opportunities for collaborative research to integrate advanced coal technologies with CO2 capture and storage in China.

type:


CEAS Colloquium

date:


Thursday, February 23

time:


4:15 PM - 5:30 PM

location:


Philippines Room
Encina Hall, 3rd Floor
Stanford University

sponsor:


Center for East Asian Studies
Shorenstein APARC

contact:


[email protected]