Climate solutions are not costly but instead profitable, since saving fuel costs less than buying fuel. That’s what energy expert Amory Lovins will discuss at 8 p.m. on Monday, October 27. Lovins’s talk is part of Caltech’s Chen-Huang Sustainable Energy Series and will take place in Beckman Auditorium on campus.
Lovins, an internationally recognized expert on energy independence, co founded the Rocky Mountain Institute and now serves as chairman and chief scientist. Newsweek called Lovins “one of the Western world’s most influential energy thinkers.” He has been described by The Economist as an “energy visionary” who “sounded the first alarm about the potential damage that climate change might bring.” His nearly four decades of advocacy for resource efficiency, energy innovation, and holistic design have garnered attention because of today’s interrelated energy and climate issues.
Lovins, a MacArthur Fellow and consultant physicist, is among the world’s leading innovators in energy and its links with resources, security, development, and the environment. He has advised the energy and other industries for more than three decades, as well as the U.S. Department of Energy and Department of Defense. A Harvard and Oxford dropout and former Oxford don, he advises major firms and governments worldwide and has briefed 19 heads of state.
The Chen-Huang Sustainable Energy Series is underwritten by the Chen-Huang Endowed Energy Seminar Fund, which was established in June 2006 with a gift from Marina Chen and her husband, Chi-Fu Huang. Chen is a Caltech alumna who received her master’s degree in 1980 and her PhD in 1983, both in computer science. The seminar series is directed by Nate Lewis, Caltech’s Argyros Professor and professor of chemistry.
The program is presented by Caltech’s Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences. A speaker’s fee was underwritten by Mr. and Mrs. C. Foster Stanback. For more on the event, go to “http://events.caltech.edu/events/event-5861.html, and for information on the Rocky Mountain Institute, go to http://www.rmi.org.