Description

Many reports on energy, environment and climate see the year 2050 as a target year. The energy supply must then no longer contribute (almost) to CO2 emissions; while the 9 billion inhabitants of this earth expected by then will have reached an acceptable level of prosperity. This means an almost unimaginably huge challenge, so also opportunities!

In this symposium, speakers will address partial facets from their disciplines: Fusion Technology and Biotechnology.

The symposium programme is as follows:

15.30 Walk-in and reception with coffee or tea
16.00 Welcome by the chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering
16.05 Lecture by Prof Dr Tony Donné, Nuclear Fusion, from promise to reality, followed by discussion with the audience.

17.45 Break, with a dressed-up bread meal, in the foyer

18.30 Lecture by Prof Dr Patricia Osseweijer, TUD. "Biomass for Energy and Food Security, a challenge for all!", followed by discussion with the audience.
8.10 pm Closure by the chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering

Speakers:
- Prof Dr Patricia Osseweijer (TUD), professor of biotechnology and society at the Faculty of Applied Sciences and appointed visiting professor at the Faculty of Biotechnology at Putra University in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) as of 1 October 2012. She has occupied the KIVI NIRIA chair in science communication since 2009.

Plans for a biobased economy outline a sustainable future around the use of renewable biomass. But the question keeps cropping up whether we can produce enough biomass to supply the growing world population with both sufficient food and energy, and if so, is there still a place for biofuels or other forms of biomass-based energy? This food-fuel debate is characterised by many assumptions, half-truths and misplaced causal links. One thing is certain, a sustainable society can only come about if society itself takes responsibility for it. Prof Osseweijer will give an overview of a number of initiatives working on innovation and implementation for a sustainable use of biomass and responding to the role of citizens and consumers.

Speaker(s)

- Prof Dr A.J.H. (Tony) Donné (TU/e), Head of Fusion Research at FOM - DIFFER (Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research; part of the FOM). He is also part-time Professor of Diagnostics of Fusion Plasmas at TU/e. He is further actively involved in many international research groups in the field of fusion.

Although nuclear fusion research has been going on for 50 years, not a milliWatt has yet been generated; therefore, nuclear fusion likes to be dismissed as an 'eternal promise'. The very high temperature of the plasma (150 mln ºC) and the stability issues involved always present researchers with new challenges. They are currently working on the ITER project in Aix- en-Provence, France. By 2020, this machine should be capable of generating 10 times more fusion power than fed power. After an introduction and explanation of the ITER project - supported by 33 countries (US, China, Russia, Japan, India, South Korea and 27 EU states) - Prof Donné will outline when fusion can be expected to contribute to our electricity supply.

Location

KIVI NIRIA building, Prinsessegracht 23

2514 AP The Hague

Organiser

Electrical Engineering

Name and contact details for information

ir. D.I. Brügemann at the e-mail address below

brujoule@planet.nl