With a quarter of the world's population in developing countries without access to basic electricity, solar energy is the panacea for solving the energy crisis that affects us today. Through years of research, solar technology has now reached the point where it can be deployed in terms of scale and ...
The California Council on Science and Technology has undertaken a study of California's energy system in 2050. By executive order, the state is to reduce emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. The study identifies energy system descriptions (call "portraits") from a technical perspective that would meet this standard ...
The Picture of Elemetary Particle Physics at Year Two of the Large Hadron ColliderThe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN collides protons with unprecendeted high energy and intensity. Dedicated detectors, named ATLAS, CMS and LHCb, measure these collisions and attempt to reconstruct the stable, unstable and elusive particles that were produced therein. Most of the observed reactions can be described with particles and ...
Supermassive black holes, with masses of millions to billions of times that of our own Sun, are found lurking at the centers of most nearby large galaxies. But which came first, the black hole or the galaxy? Dr. Greene will talk about the search for the smallest supermassive black holes ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $6 Members
Laura Cunningham presents Ten Millennia of California Ecology Ecologically, the past is always present if you know where and how to look. Paleontologist-biologist-artist Laura Cunningham spent 20 years exploring California's archives and relic lands to reconstruct exactly what life used to look like here over the past 10,000 years. Her beautiful images and her insights about long-period ecological ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for members
