Abstract

A progress report on our efforts to improve EV and utility battery energy storage, stop greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture due to fertilizer use and necessity of direct air capture of CO2 will be discussed.

Bio

Steven Chu is Professor of Physics, Molecular and Cellular Physiology and of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for laser cooling and trapping of atoms. Other contributions include the first optical tweezers manipulation of biomolecules, precision atom interferometry with ultra cold atoms and single molecule FRET of biomolecules. His current research includes molecular and cellular biology, ultrasound imaging, batteries and direct air carbon capture. From 2009 to 2013, he was U.S. Secretary of Energy, where he began ARPA-E and the Energy Innovation Hubs. As the became the first scientist Cabinet member in U.S. history, he recruited dozens outstanding scientists and engineers to the Department of Energy and was personally tasked by President Obama to help BP stop the Macondo Oil spill. Previously he was director of the Lawerence Berkeley National Lab. Since joining Stanford in 1987, he helped initiate Bio-X and the Kavali Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology.