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UNLV’s Director of the Office of Strategic Energy Programs, Dr. Oliver Hemmers, recently spoke to the CEO-CFO Group about UNLV’s first Annual Energy Symposium, “Renewable, Sustainable and Achievable” on August 15th and 16th, 2007. It will feature numerous alternative energy projects being pursued at UNLV. Dr. Hemmers, who holds a Ph.D. in physics, discussed a number of the projects which included solar, hydrogen, advanced lighting, sustainable buildings, biofuels and improving photovoltaic membranes.

UNLV’s Office of Strategic Energy Programs is working on solar hydrogen production from water, hydrogen storage, advanced lighting technologies, and biofuels. The solar hydrogen projects are developing cheaper ways to make hydrogen from water using solar thermo-chemical and photoelectrochemical processes. They are also pursuing how to better store hydrogen. The advance lighting technology projects focus on improving conversion efficiencies, reducing heat load, and increasing brightness with green LED, quantum dot, and hybrid solar lighting. Their biofuel’s project is focused on improving the electrochemical process to significantly reduce the cost of biodiesel production. Read full story: Click here for downloadable brochure:

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