2011 World Materials Summit addresses energy, sustainability, and water
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2011 World Materials Summit addresses energy, sustainability, and water
tions related to global access to clean energy and water in a sustainable way.
Political landscape
The Summit opened with keynote addresses by prominent representatives of www.mrs.org/2011wms the United States, Europe, China, and Mexico. They presented government he 2011 World Materials Summit, policy and activity regarding materials Realizing that the concerns are longheld on October 9–12, 2011, at the for energy. term and that young players will ultiL’Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, Steven Koonin, Undersecretary for mately be the ones who are going to need DC, provided a forum for top deciScience at the U.S. Department of Ento solve the energy challenges, the chairs sion makers and energy experts from ergy, summarized DOE’s inaugural Quaof this year’s Summit inaugurated a Stuaround the world to focus on the madrennial Technology Review, which is dent Congress, a program for graduate terials research needs for the growing intended to provide a systematic method students and postdoctoral scholars in energy economy. Organized jointly by to review the Department’s research and fields directly related to energy and enthe Materials Research Society (MRS), development (R&D) portfolio. The revironmental science, engineering, and/ the European MRS (E-MRS), and the port defines six key strategies. Under or policy. The top 45 candidates comChinese MRS (C-MRS), the goal of the “transport” sector, DOE will devote ing from 18 countries were selected on the Summit was to explore how the difits greatest effort to electrification of a competitive basis to participate in the ferent regions of the world can work the vehicle fleet, including an increase Student Congress. The participants were together on the critical issue of clean in vehicle efficiency and deployment invited to a day of tutorials to help them energy, including its relation to enviof alternative hydrocarbon fuels. In get up to speed with their more seasoned ronmental sustainability and water. the “stationary” heat and power seccolleagues. The participants considered the area of tor, the report finds that the They then joined their colleagues for materials research as well as advocacy, Department should increase a day of overview presentations followed economics, outreach, and education. emphasis on efficiency and by a day of breakout sessions by topic. MRS The Summit was chaired by Gabriel understanding the grid. DOE Participants of the Summit utilized these Crean of the Commissariat à l'Energie should also support R&D tobreakout discussions in order to assess Atomique (CEA) (Europe), David Ginward increasing building and industrial and document global research and inley of the National Renewable Energy efficiency and toward deployment of novation needs, develop policies, and Laboratory (USA), Yafang Han of the clean energy. The report was released outline the future of advanced energy Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Malast September and can be accessed at materials. The four-day effort c
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