ReNEWable Energy and Climate Change – 6pm Wednesday 11th January
Join us at Dundee Science Centre on Wednesday 11th January for this all encompassing talk about our energy consumption. Geoff Wood from the University of Dundee’s Centre for Petroleum, Mineral Law and Policy will give a short 25-30 minute talk…
Put a Cap on that Gas! – Storing CO2 Underground – Wednesday 12th Jan, 6pm
The Scottish Government has pledged to reduce Scotland’s CO2 emissions by 20% by 2020, which means we have to find some new tools to combat to put in to action. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is one technology that could…
Climate Change – Soils Will Make it Hot! Monday 25th October, 7pm
Over the last decade, a lot has been said about climate change, and much of the predictions about what will happen to our climate have not been very optimistic. What a lot of people don’t know is that soils, with…
The Dundee connection in the solar power revolution – Monday 26th April
What is this ‘Dundee Connection’? In the 1970s Dundee scientists pioneered the development of the first thin-film silicon solar cells, leading to solar panels able to convert energy from the Sun into electricity. Today they work closely with international partners…
Global Warming and Flooding in Scotland
Once the preserve of a minority, environmental concerns have captured the public interest. Films like An Inconvenient Truth have done a lot to inform the public of the immediacy of the threats. However, climate change is resulting in different effects…
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