Solutions for Social Impact: Is there a clean-energy path to a stable climate future?

Solutions for Social Impact: Is there a clean-energy path to a stable climate future?

Is there a clean-energy path to a stable climate future? 

October 24, 2023
5 p.m.

McCarthy Arts Center Recital Hall 

Presenter: Professor Alain Brizard, Ph.D., Department of Physics 

We live in a society that makes huge demands on energy production and distribution. Creating this energy has a price – and our environment has often borne the brunt of that cost. But, could there be a way to produce energy without wreaking havoc on our Earth and destabilizing its climate too?   

Saint Michael’s College Physics Professor Alain Brizard has been one of the world’s leading theorists in fusion plasma research for almost four decades. He will present on the major forms of energy used in our modern society (derived from fossil and nuclear fuels, as well as derived directly and indirectly from the Sun), and discuss their impacts on the environment as well as their potential roles in stabilizing or destabilizing Earth’s climate.