{"247991":{"#nid":"247991","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Estimating Our Energy Predicament","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch5\u003EPublic Lecture: School of Physics\u0026nbsp;Inquiring Minds Series: Professor Tom Murphy, University of California, San Diego\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECombining knowledge of physics with a healthy willingness to estimate and\u0026nbsp;approximate, we can say some rather profound things about future paths\u0026nbsp;available to our society in terms of energy and resources. \u0026nbsp;Topics such as\u0026nbsp;growth, global warming, fossil fuels and their potential replacements, and\u0026nbsp;energy storage are ripe targets for back-of-the-envelope quantification,\u0026nbsp;and will be explored in this talk. \u0026nbsp;A subtext is that we should not take\u0026nbsp;for granted that superior substitutes will replace fossil fuels.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Estimating Our Energy Predicament"}],"uid":"27664","created_gmt":"2013-10-22 13:17:35","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:05:26","author":"Alison Morain","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-11-11T17:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2013-11-11T18:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-11-11T18:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-11-11 22:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-11-11 23:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-11-11 23:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"77791","name":"Estimating Our Energy Predicament"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:alison.morain@physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ealison.morain@physics.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}