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<div>This seminar may be of interest. (Please forgive
cross-postings.)</div>
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<div><b>"Future Energy Technologies and Strategies for
China"</b></div>
<div><b>A talk sponsored by the<br>
MIT China Energy Research Group at the Industrial Performance
Center<br>
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Tuesday, February 22<br>
2:30pm<br>
</b>MIT's Muckley Building (E40), 4th Floor, Room 496<br>
One Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA<br>
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<b>Eric D. Larson<br>
</b>Princeton University, Princeton, NJ<br>
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The Chinese government's goal of building three more Chinas
(quadrupling GDP) between 2000 and 2020 presents challenges and
opportunities for the development of a sustainable energy system for
the country. Challenges include reducing the already-high cost
of air pollution, stemming rapidly growing oil imports, continuing
heavy reliance on the main domestic energy resource - coal, and (in
the long term) limiting CO2 emissions. The substantial expansion
that will be required in China's energy infrastructure provides an
economic opportunity for introducing new technologies to help address
these challenges. Drawing on results from Markal modeling
studies, implications of China's future energy-technology choices will
be discussed. The modeling studies suggest that gasification of
coal and biomass are key enabling technologies for a sustainable
energy future for China. Engineering and economic analysis of
gasification-based processes for production of fuels and electricity
will be discussed.<br>
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Dr. Eric Larson is a senior member of the Energy Systems Analysis
Group at the Princeton Environmental Institute. (Until 2000, this
Group was part of Princeton's Center for Energy and Environmental
Studies). He is also Affiliated Faculty with the Science,
Technology, and Environmental Policy Program at Princeton's Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. His current
research interests include engineering, economic, and policy-related
assessments of advanced clean-energy systems, especially for electric
power and transportation fuels production from solid carbonaceous
fuels (biomass and coal). Among his present activities, he is a
task leader on a major multi-institution, multi-disciplinary project
to assess the long-term sustainable potential for biomass energy in
the United States. Dr. Larson also co-leads an ongoing
collaboration with colleagues at Tsinghua University (Beijing) that is
exploring sustainable coal and biomass-based long-term energy
strategies for China.</div>
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<div>Dr. Larson has been with Princeton University since 1983.
He has degrees in mechanical engineering from Washington U. in St.
Louis (BS) and the U. of Minnesota (MSE and PhD).<br>
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<div>Edward Cunningham</div>
<div>Industrial Performance Center</div>
<div>MIT</div>
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