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Our Energy Challenge R. E. Smalley Rice University IEEE 2004 International Electron Devices Meeting, San Francisco, December 14, 2004

World Energy Millions of Barrels per Day (Oil Equivalent) Source: John F. Bookout (President of Shell USA),“Two Centuries of Fossil Fuel Energy” International Geological Congress, Washington DC; July 10,1985. Episodes, vol 12, (1989). see “Uppsala Code” analysis of IEA 2004 Outlook by Kjell Aleklett on

Global warming over the past millennium Very rapidly we have entered uncharted territory -– what some call the anthropocene climate regime. Over the 20 th century, human population quadrupled and energy consumption increased sixteenfold. Near the end of the last century, we crossed a critical threshold, and global warming from the fossil fuel greenhouse became a major, and increasingly dominant, factor in climate change. Global mean surface temperature is higher today than it’s been for at least a millennium. Slide from Marty Hoffert NYU

Humanity’s Top Ten Problems for next 50 years 1.ENERGY 2.WATER 3.FOOD 4.ENVIRONMENT 5.POVERTY 6.TERRORISM & WAR 7.DISEASE 8.EDUCATION 9.DEMOCRACY 10. POPULATION Billion People 2050 ~ 10 Billion People

The ENERGY REVOLUTION (The Terawatt Challenge) 14.5 Terawatts 220 M BOE/day Terawatts 450 – 900 MBOE/day The Basis of Prosperity 20 st Century = OIL 21 st Century = ??

PRIMARY ENERGY SOURCES Alternatives to Oil TOO LITTLE Conservation / Efficiency-- not enough Hydroelectric -- not enough Biomass -- not enough Wind -- not enough Wave & Tide-- not enough CHEMICAL Natural Gas -- sequestration?, cost? Clean Coal -- sequestration?, cost? NUCLEAR Nuclear Fission -- radioactive waste?, terrorism?, cost? Nuclear Fusion -- too difficult?, cost? Geothermal HDR-- cost ?, enough? Solar terrestrial -- cost ? Solar power satellites -- cost ? Lunar Solar Power -- cost ?

165,000 TW of sunlight hit the earth

Solar Cell Land Area Requirements 6 Boxes at 3.3 TW Each = 20 TWe Slide from Nate Cal. Tech

World Energy Scheme for 30-60TW in 2050: The Distributed Store-Gen Grid Energy transported as electrical energy over wire, rather than by transport of mass (coal, oil, gas) Vast electrical power grid on continental scale interconnecting ~ 100 million asynchronous “local” storage and generation sites, entire system continually innovated by free enterprise “Local” = house, block, community, business, town, … Local storage = batteries, flywheels, hydrogen, etc. Local generation = reverse of local storage + local solar and geo Local “buy low, sell high” to electrical power grid Local optimization of days of storage capacity, quality of local power Electrical grid does not need to be very reliable Mass Primary Power input to grid via HV DC transmission lines from existing plants plus remote (up to 2000 mile) sources on TW scale, including vast solar farms in deserts, wind, NIMBY nuclear, clean coal, stranded gas, wave, hydro, space-based solar…”EVERYBODY PLAYS” Electricity, Diesel, Hydrogen and Methanol are the transportation fuels

Enabling Nanotech Revolutions 1.Photovoltaics -- drop cost by 10 fold. 2.Photocatalytic reduction of CO 2 to methanol. 3.Direct photoconversion of light + water to produce H 2. 4.Batteries, supercapacitors, flywheels -- improve by x for the distributed Store/Gen Grid, and automotive applications. 5.H 2 storage -- light weight materials for pressure tanks and LH2 vessels, and/or a new light weight, easily reversible hydrogen chemisorption system (material X). 6.Fuel cells -- drop the cost by x + low temp start + reversible 7.Power cables (superconductors, or quantum conductors) with which to rewire the electrical transmission grid, and enable continental, and even worldwide electrical energy transport; and also to replace aluminum and copper wires -- particularly in the windings of electric motors and generators.

Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes ( Buckytubes) ( Buckytubes) A New Miracle Polymer like Kevlar, Zylon, Spectra The Strongest fiber that will ever be made. Electrical Conductivity of Copper or GaAs. Thermal Conductivity of Diamond. The Chemistry of Carbon. The size and perfection of DNA.

van Hove singularities Electronic States of Semiconducting SWNT

Nanotube Infrared Emitter Slide Courtesy of Phaedon Avouris, IBM Yorktown

SWNT Current Carrying Capacity over 10 9 amps/cm 2 Hongjie Dai et. al. “High-Field Quasiballistic Transport In short Carbon Nanotubes” Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, (2004) Weak Accoustic Phonon scattering l ap ~ 300 nm Strong Optical Phonon scattering l op ~ 10 nm (threshold 0.15 eV)

Alper Buldum and Jian Ping Lu, Phys. Rev. B 63, R (2001). Buia, Buldum, and Lu, Phys. Rev. B 67, (2003). Tube-to-Tube Quantum Tunneling

QUANTUM WIRE PROJECT ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY OF COPPER AT 1/6 THE WEIGHT WITH NEGLIGIBLE EDDY CURRENT LOSS cut SWNT to short lengths (< 50 nm) select out the (n,m) tubes with n=m (the “armchair tubes”) Attach catalyst to open ends grow from these seeds to >10 micron lengths ( “cloning”) spin them into continuous fibers SWNT cloning technology also enables optimization of all other swnt applications including molectronics, RFI shielding, sensors, batteries, and microwave absorption

SWNT Fiber Spinning in Oleum ONR DURINT (4 th yr of 5 yr grant)

Fiber Spinning in Progress Close-up

Take-up of Spun fiber

An overview of SWNT Fiber

A close look at the ropes

SWNT Amplification 1.Cut to short lengths (< 50 nm) 2.Solubilize in Ethanol 3.Attach catalyst 4.Inject into reactor and grow clone 5.Harvest cloned product 6.Feedback to step 1 (start with initial swnt Sorted & selected by end chemistry) But these organic molecules conduct electricity! Same old chemistry.

SWNT+ FeMoC Catalyst ( input signal) CO + H2 feed Cloning Reactor 500 < T < 700 C Catalyst Prep. Monoclonal SWNT SWNT Amplifier Gain = output/input = mass of product swnt / mass of swnt seeds 10 nm long seeds  10 micron long product; gain ~ 1000

Attach FeMoC to swnt seedDeposit on Surface Reductive Docking in H2Growth in CO + H2 Cloning from Selected SWNT Seeds

Iron Molybdate Cluster ( FeMoC ) a Precursor for SWNT Cloning Catalyst Icosahedral capsule Mo(VI) 72 Fe(III) 30 –Internal cavity diameter: ~16 Ǻ –Diameter: ~ 21 Ǻ Keggin anion guest {[H x PMo 12 O 40 ] 3- } –Diameter: ~14 Ǻ Agnew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2000, 39, No. 19

Established at Rice Univ. - September, 2003 Dr. Howard K. Schmidt - Executive Director Dr. Robert H. Hauge – Technology Directo Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory Making BuckyTubes Be All They Can Be.

The biggest single challenge for the next few decades: ENERGY for people. At MINIMUM we need 10 Terawatts (150 M BOE/day) from some new clean energy source by 2050 For worldwide peace and prosperity we need it to be cheap. We simply can not do this with current technology. We need Boys and Girls to enter Physical Science and Engineering as they did after Sputnik. Inspire in them a sense of MISSION ( BE A SCIENTIST SAVE THE WORLD ) We need a bold new APOLLO PROGRAM to find the NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGY

The Nickel & Dime Solution For FY05-FY10 collect 5 cents from every gallon of oil product Invest the resultant > $10 Billion per year as additional funding in frontier energy research distributed among DOE, NSF, NIST, NASA, and DoD. For the next 10 years collect 10 cents from every gallon; invest the >$20 Billion per year in frontier energy research. Devote a third of this money to New Energy Research Centers located adjacent to major US Research Universities. At worst this endeavor will create a cornucopia of new technologies and new industries. At best, we will solve the energy problem before 2020, and thereby lay the basis for energy prosperity & peace worldwide.

Reading Assignments Out of Gas, Daniel Goodstein The End of Oil, Paul Roberts The Prize, Daniel Yergin Hubbert’s Peak, Kenneth Deffeyes Matt Simmons web site ( ASPO web site ( Gal Luft web site ( Amory Lovins web site ( M.I. Hoffert et. al., Science, 2002, 298, 981, DOE BES Workshop Report on Hydrogen (