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The MEM Seminar
Series 2006/2007
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Abstract
The intensive and continued use of fossil fuel energy
resources has increased the levels of carbon dioxide in the earth’s
atmosphere with serious implications for the earth in terms of climate change
and global warming. It is increasingly recognized that comprehensive and
holistic measures involving energy efficiency improvements, fuel and energy
resource substitution, and carbon management and sequestration have to be
taken and implemented in both the short and long term, in order to mitigate,
stabilise and reduce carbon emissions to the atmosphere. A broad overview of
energy resources and technologies, policies and actions that can contribute
to such efforts will be presented and discussed, with particular emphasis on
the situation in Singapore
and the region. While some measures may have negative economic impacts in the
short term, it is believed that a shift towards sustainable and
carbon-neutral energy will be beneficial in the long term for both the
environment and the world economy.
About the Speaker
Associate Professor Ho
Hiang Kwee received his university education at the University of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK)
and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). At NTU, he is active in
teaching, consultancy and R&D activities in thermodynamics, computer
applications in engineering, and energy, including fuel cell-based integrated
energy systems, and assessment of competing energy technologies. He chaired
the R&D workgroup of the National Energy Efficiency and co-chaired the
Energy Tech Scan panel set up by A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and
Research) in 2005-6. He is also the Immediate Past Chair of the ASME
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Singapore Section. He has served
as consultant and technical adviser to several companies and government
agencies in the areas of energy efficiency, aircraft engines, fuel cells and
energy policy. His most recent work for the Singapore
government (completed in 2005) was to model and analyse the energy system in Singapore as part of a study on the economic
impacts of the Kyoto Protocol for Singapore.
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Public Seminar on
“Energy & Climate Change – What
Next?”
By
Associate Professor Ho Hiang Kwee
Director, Energy Systems Laboratory, School of Mechanical & Aerospace
Engineering,
Nanyang Technological University
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