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Jenny Nelson, “Harnessing the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Oct 11, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 5min
2
Isha Red - Is She a Passionate Fellow?
04:32 • 2min
3
Did You Go Off to Science at School?
06:14 • 2min
4
Did You Have a Good Physics Teacher?
08:02 • 2min
5
Was There Any Sense of Discrimination Because You Were a Woman?
10:01 • 2min
6
How Did You Know You Had a PhD in Computer Science?
11:58 • 4min
7
What I Learned About Physics at the University of Cambridge
15:30 • 3min
8
I've Been Doing This, but I'm Not Able to Embrace Intellectual Challenges a Well Defined Way
18:07 • 2min
9
How Did You Find the Right Thing?
19:58 • 3min
10
The Optics of Suit in a Nuclear War
22:49 • 3min
11
Simulations and Computer Simulations - Is There a Plan?
25:56 • 2min
12
You Did That, and You're Doing Something Socially Relevant
27:39 • 2min
13
Post Tock - What Did You Do?
29:57 • 2min
14
The Basics of Solar Energy
32:19 • 2min
15
The Interaction of Solar Pautons With Condensed Matter
34:08 • 5min
16
Photovoltaic Energy Conversion
38:45 • 2min
17
The History of Photovoltaic Cells
40:17 • 5min
18
The Limiting Efficiency of a Solar Cell
45:43 • 3min
19
The Limiting Efficiency of a Solar Cell
49:09 • 4min
20
The Ideal Solar Cell?
53:10 • 5min
21
How to Make a Solar Cell From Gallium Arsenide
58:07 • 3min
22
Solar Cells - What's Happening With Them?
01:00:59 • 2min
23
How to Make Semi Conductors More Cost Effectively?
01:02:33 • 5min
24
Organic Semi Conductors for Applications and Optoelectronics
01:08:03 • 3min
25
How Much of This Can Be Doed by Computer Simulation?
01:11:33 • 4min
26
The Beauty of the Computer Model and the Indifferent Materials for Solar Cells
01:15:36 • 3min
27
How to Build the Ideal Solar Cell?
01:18:21 • 5min
28
You Know, I'm a Material Scientist, You Know?
01:23:02 • 2min
29
Is There Such a Thing as Inintellectually Stimulating?
01:25:00 • 4min
30
Is Solar Power Overtaking Predictions?
01:29:17 • 3min
31
The Energy Payback Time
01:31:51 • 5min
32
Is the Return on Investment of Solar Energy an Issue?
01:36:39 • 3min
33
I Think We Need Both M and a Zero Carbon Omissions System
01:39:30 • 2min
34
Is There a Demand Matching Issue With Wind and Solar?
01:41:22 • 3min
35
Is It Easier to Invest in a New Technology?
01:44:23 • 2min
36
Basic Research
01:46:37 • 2min
37
Is There a Role for Science Policy or Energy Policy?
01:48:55 • 4min
38
What Would You Do Differently if You Were Prime Minister?
01:52:38 • 3min
39
Energy Efficiency - A Leap Frog Idea
01:55:52 • 2min
40
Are You Optimistic?
01:58:10 • 3min
41
I Think It's All on the Way.
02:00:47 • 3min
42
I Fear for You or You Seem a Better Etter Yee Person?
02:04:16 • 2min
43
What's the Science Question?
02:06:09 • 4min