Can solar power deliver?

• 9.00am – 5.00pm on 14 November 2011 – 15 November 2011
• at The Royal Society, London

Organised by Professor Salvator Roberto Amendolia, Professor Peter Edwards FRS, Sir Richard Friend FRS, Professor Can Li

Solar power has the potential to provide an abundant, sustainable and low-carbon energy stream for civilization’s burgeoning energy demands. However, this bold vision now requires rapid revolutionary, not evolutionary, progress in the capture, conversion and storage of the Sun’s energy. The world’s leading experts will be asked “Can solar power deliver our global energy solution on a 20–30 year timescale with a world population approaching 10 billion with growing economic needs?”.

Download the draft programme here

Audio files of the talks are also available

Speakers and Chairs include:

Professor Michele Aresta, Professor Keith Barnham, Professor Richard Cogdell FRS, Professor Lee Cronin, Professor Giovanni De Santi, Professor James Durrant, Professor Peter Edwards FRS, Professor Martin Green, Professor Neil Greenham, Professor Anthony Harriman, Professor Can Li, Professor David MacKay FRS, Professor Hans Muller-Steinhagen, Professor Jenny Nelson, Professor Carlo Rubbia ForMemRS, Professor Robert Schlögl, Professor Ayodhya Tiwari, Professor Andreas Zuttel

The meeting was followed by a satellite meeting at the Kavli Royal Society International Centre on Functional bulk nanostructures for energy generation and storage.

The proceedings of this meeting are scheduled to be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions A.

image (c) Johan Douma