Paper Authors on Tour - Dr. John L. Gardon

Global and National Energy Issues: What are the Options?

ABSTRACT
The concerns are climate change and self-sufficiency. In this context the following issues will be critically discussed:

• Oil: supplies (off-shore, tar sand, coal-to-liquid), low sulfur diesel
• Generation of electricity:
• Clean coal
• Natural Gas
• Intermittent sources (wind, sun)
• Nuclear, hydro, geothermal
• Cars:
• Ethanol, hydrogen (fuel cell)
• Electric: hybrid. plug-in, novel batteries
• Planning: Kyoto, federal budget, priorities

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Biography
Before his retirement Dr. Gardon was Vice President, R&D of Akzo Nobel Coatings (the world largest paint company) and, earlier of the Sherwin Williams Co. He was Chairman and is now Fellow of the Polymeric materials, Science and Engineering Division of the American Chemical Society. He chaired a Gordon Research Conference on Adhesion, held senior positions in various scientific and business associations, obtained several national scientific awards, and authored 51 refereed papers, four textbooks and sixteen U.S. patents. He obtained his Ph.D. summa cum laude in chemistry from the McGill University, and is a chemical engineering graduate of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.