There is no single solution to the enormity of the challenge of saying farewell to fossil fuels.
This course sets out the scale of the challenges facing us over the next three decades and beyond. Wind and solar may provide sufficient green and clean future energy but there is no single solution about what to do with this renewable energy when demand and supply are out of register in both time and location.
Advocating a single approach, be it batteries alone or a purely hydrogen economy, will not succeed. And moving into the future recognising hydrogen as the only zero-carbon fuel denies the complementarity of hydrogen and ammonia. Indeed, ammonia and hydrogen are the two complementary zero-carbon fuels that only together can replicate the immense fuel reserves and fuel usage that fossil fuels provide us with today.
Secure your place
This course has been broken down into three online sessions each lasting approximately three hours.
Tuesday 14 September, 14:00 - 17:00 CET / CEST
Wednesday 15 September, 14:00 - 17:00 CET / CEST
Thursday 16 September, 14:00 - 17:00 CET / CEST
Course Benefits:
Understand the past and how far we have transitioned in moving from fossil fuels to alternative green technologies
Discover a number of zero-carbon fuel case studies, addressing issues of storage, transportation and infrastructure
Learn about the race to green, and underlining the fundamental importance of finding solutions for all
Identify the scale of the challenges still to be tackled and the short-term compromise for blue technologies
This Course Includes:
Access to all three sessions each lasting approximately three hours
All session recordings & any course materials covered during the course
Interactive format with dedicated Q&A sections with the trainer
Flexible access on any device
A certificate of attendance after full completion of the course
Agenda
Attend live or watch the recordings. Each session includes dedicated Q&A sections throughout.
Session 1: 14th September 14:00-17:00 CET
The Past: Setting the Stage
Posing the best questions and developing the answers that bring affordable solutions for all
The Past: Setting the Stage:
Farewell fossil fuels
The enormity of the scale of the challenge
Working with the ubiquitous
Developing an unbiased opinion
Archimedes was right all along
Major progress with renewable energy production
The elephant in the room
Scale matters
A century-long history of the most important discovery of the 20th century
Feeding the world
Disruptive technologies
Looking to the past to guide the future
Session 2: 15th September 14:00-17:00 CET
The Present: Case Studies of Key Technologies
From renewable energy to zero-carbon fuels to clean power – what are the options?
Zero-carbon fuel synthesis
Technologies to address the scale of the challenge
Storage, transportation and infrastructure
The feasible is already here
Low cost means minimal disruption
Retrofitting existing technologies - clean and green combustion
Exploring the spectrum of zero-carbon fuels
Fuel cells come in many forms
Session 3: 16th September 14:00-17:00 CET
The Future: Integrating Pathways
Realising an integrated roadmap through to net-zero by 2050
Understanding the scale of the challenge and recognising the unachievable
Miracles are not guaranteed
Starting from today
From brown to blue and the race to green
One size does not fit all
Different solutions for different technologies
Hybrid technology solutions
Developing a roadmap for the developed and the developing world
New opportunities
Energy security for all
Ubiquitous green energy production and storage
Meet the Trainer
Bill David has four decades of experience in energy systems beginning in Oxford in the research group that invented the lithium-ion battery. He is Professor of Energy Materials Chemistry in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory and Fellow in Physics at St. Catherine’s College at the University of Oxford. David is also an STFC Senior Fellow at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire.
David's career has involved the research, development and demonstration of renewable and sustainable chemical and electrochemical energy storage systems and the provision of clean renewable power. David is a Fellow of the UK Royal Society where he sits on their net-zero panel and has contributed to several of their Policy Briefing Report on low carbon energy.
He is the lead author of the recent Royal Society Report on "Ammonia: zero-carbon fertiliser, fuel and energy store" and advocates transitioning through the lowest disruption routes that build upon existing international infrastructures to realise a real-zero emissions future this side of 2050.
What Attendees Are Saying
“The course definitely added a lot of insight and value. Would definitely recommend.”
“I enjoyed the hands-on approach and the use of real examples from the industry”