Programme
Note that this is a preliminary program.
Monday 19 October
8:00 Registration
8.45 Participants are requested to take their seats
9:00 Welcome address and introduction
Gunnar Öquist, Permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (RSAS)
Sven Kullander, Chairman RSAS Energy Committee
9:20 Session 1. Climate change and mitigation
Chairs: Kerstin Niblaeus, RSAS and Rickard Lundin, RSAS
9:30 Beyond fossil fuels: environmentally carbon neutral and regenerative chemical recycling of carbon dioxide to methanol (dimethyl ether, DME) for energy storage, transportation or household fuels and source materials for synthetic hydrocarbon products
George A. Olah, 1994 Nobel Laureate Chemistry, University of Southern California, USA
10:00 Managing the build-up of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel consumption
Klaus Lackner, Professor, Columbia University, New York, USA
10:30 Geoengineering the Climate: the findings of the Royal Society study
Peter Cox, Professor of Climate System Dynamics, University of Exeter, UK
10:50 The status of climate change research
Lennart Bengtsson, Professor, Max Planck Institute, Hamburg, Germany
11:20 Discussion
11:50 Lunch
13:00 Session 2. Renewable energy
Chairs: Harry Frank, RSAS and Georgia Destouni, RSAS
13:10 Innovation: the key to a successful development of renewable energies
Carlo Rubbia, 1984 Nobel Laureate Physics, CERN, Geneve, Switzerland
13:40 Concentrating solar power: a roadmap from research to market
Robert Pitz-Paal, Professor, Germany Aerospace Center, Köln
14:10 Energy from wind
Hermann-Josef Wagner, Professor, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
14:40 Wave power and second generation biofuels
Tomas Kåberger, Director General, Swedish Energy Agency
15:00 Discussion
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Session 3. Outlook on energy efficiency
Chairs: Bengt Kasemo, RSAS and Sir Brian Heap, Vice President, European Academies Science Advisory Council
Panel discussion
Ola Alterå, State secretary, Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Professor and Co-Chair, International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management
Bernard Bulkin, Dr and Chairman of the Board, Chemrec AB
Tomas Kåberger, Director General, Swedish Energy Agency
17:30 End of day 1
17:45 Drinks in Gallery Aula Magna
Tuesday 20 October
9:00 Session 4. Nuclear energy
Chairs: Karl Grandin, RSAS and Peter Jagers, RSAS
9:10 The future of nuclear energy
Mujid Kazimi, Director, Center for advanced nuclear energy systems, Boston, USA
9:40 Subcritical thorium reactors
Carlo Rubbia, 1984 Nobel Laureate Physics, CERN, Geneve, Switzerland
10:10 Fusion energy – ready for use by 2050?
Friedrich Wagner, Professor, Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany
10:40 Discussion
11:10 Session 5. Fuels for transportation
Chairs: Bengt Nordén, RSAS and Bertil Fredholm, RSAS
11:20 Low carbon vehicles
Julia King, Professor and Vice-Chancellor, Aston University, UK
11:50 Lunch
13:00 Batteries for transportation now and in the future
Jean-Marie Tarascon, Professor, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens
13:30 Fossil motor fuels around 2050
Kjell Aleklett, Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden
14:00 Discussion
14:30 Coffee break
15:00 Session 6. Life cycle analyses and resource assessments
Chairs: Karl-Göran Mäler, RSAS and Karl Fredga, RSAS
15:10 A systems ecology view on bioenergy/biofuels
Sergio Ulgiati, Parthenope University of Napoli, Department of Sciences for the Environment, Napoli, Italy
15:40 Life cycle analyses for different energy sources
Alfred Voss, Head of Institute for Energy Economics, Stuttgart, Germany
16:10 Discussion
16:40 Closing remarks
Chair: Gunnar Öquist, Permanent secretary, RSAS
16:45 EU energy strategies
Andris Piebalgs, EU Energy Commissioner, Brussels, Belgium
17:00 Message for the UN Copenhagen Climate change conference
Sven Kullander, Chairman RSAS Energy Committee