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"Efficient Use Of Energy, A Physicist’s Perspective (Colloquia) "
September 25, 2006, 4:30pm
1 LeConte Hall

Professor Emeritus Arthur Rosenfeld
Commissioner, California Energy Commission

Improving energy efficiency is the fastest way to delay global warming, and it saves money.  US progress since the 1973 OPEC oil embargo is encouraging – we are now saving annually $700 Billion, 6% of GDP.  California is even more remarkable – per capita electricity use has stayed flat at 7000 kWh/yr while the US has grown 50% (from 8000 to 12,000 kwh/yr).  I will give examples of the technologies and policies behind these gains.  Of course we must also invest in new, renewable supply of energy, but less of it than most people think.   

"Global Warming vs, Nature's cycle and sorting the two out"
October 18, 2006, 11-12 pm.
Sibley auditorium

Prof. R. Muller,
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