[Mitworld] Nocera on Personalized Energy, Giant Leaps-- A Look Back at Apollo

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 17 |  December 16, 2009

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Personalized Energy
September 15, 2009

Daniel Nocera is swimming very hard against the current of mainstream energy research. While many 
scientists are figuring out how to scale up wind, geothermal or biomass systems, Nocera is focusing 
on “personalized” energy units that can be manufactured, distributed and installed on the cheap.
His vision builds on major research breakthroughs: He has figured out how to harness critical 
biological processes that may bring widespread solar power closer to reality. Nocera’s innovations 
include replicating in the lab the process of photosynthesis in plants, using sunlight to 
split water

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/728

Speaker:
Daniel Nocera
The Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry 


Event Host:
Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT

"A solution to the energy challenge rests in providing the non-legacy (developing) world a 
carbon-neutral, sustainable energy supply."
-Daniel Nocera

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Apollo: Reflections and Lessons
June 11, 2009

In this first of three symposium events to mark the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, an 
extraordinary cast of luminaries recount the parts they played in the Apollo program, and 
celebrate MIT’s unique role in getting humans to the moon.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/727

Moderator:
Jeffrey Hoffman
Professor of the Practice, Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT

Former NASA astronaut

Event Host:
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

"The lunar module worked every time. I’ll say that again. It worked every time."
-Joseph Gavin, Jr.

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In The Pipeline:

The Tough Get Growing: How to Succeed in a Down Economy

Presented By:
MIT Enterprise Forum

Moderator:
Bo Fishback
Vice President, Entrepreneurship
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

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