New Approaches to Environmentally Sound Energy
Pierre Potvin
Grade LevelGrades 11 to 12
Category Chemistry
Talk Description:
On campus only.
After a brief review of the difficulties with traditional energy sources, the audience will be introduced to two new strategies still at the experimental stage: the use of photovoltaic cells to harvest sunlight and of fuel cells running on methanol to produce electricity on demand. Only an elementary view of the chemistry involved will be provided, with highlights of research progress at York and elsewhere