November 23, 2011

energy from biomass: the size of the global resource

Speakers:
Dr Robert Gross, Head of Technology and Policy Assessment, UKERC
Dr Raphael Slade, Research Fellow, Imperial College London
Dr Ausilio Bauen, Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College London

Authors of a peer-reviewed report on energy from biomass, from Imperial College London and the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC), came to the SMC to describe their key findings and address assumptions about population, diet, and land use as well as the speed at which improvements in food and energy crop production can be developed.