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SUMMARY:Sunlight-driven Synthesis of Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals - Dr 
 Erwin Reisner from the Cambridge Chemistry Department
DTSTART:20180427T171500Z
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CONTACT:Tegan Hull
DESCRIPTION:A key societal challenge of our century is to secure and harne
 ss environmentally sustainable energy supplies. An attractive\napproach to
  this issue is the production of 'solar fuels' through a process known as 
 artificial photosynthesis. This technology is inspired by\nnatural photosy
 nthesis and aims to use sunlight as the energy source to generate a renewa
 ble fuel such as hydrogen or ‘green gasoline’\nfrom water and the gree
 nhouse gas carbon dioxide. Solar fuel synthesis thereby addresses importan
 t elements of the current energy\nchallenge such as sustainability\, secur
 ity of supply and energy storage. This lecture will give an overview of th
 e prospects of artificial\nphotosynthesis and discuss some of the many fun
 damental science and engineering approaches that are currently being pursu
 ed on the\nroad to a fossil-fuel free economy.
LOCATION:Pfizer Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry\, Lensfield Rd\,
  CB2 1EW
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