Christmas Party at Birmingham

It is a special Christmas Event hold by The Midlands Energy Graduate School.
We have a party after the whole day's lecture that about the energy and environment.
The exciting thing is that I have a opportunity share the ideas with experts from different University.


Gavin Walker, an expert in hydrogen storage, has been appointed as The University of Nottingham’s first Professor in Sustainable Energy Technologies. I told him I will set up a company about the renewable energy in the future. He give me some valuable suggestions. Firstly, the University of Nottingham has the resources about this industry. we have Professors and institutes relevant with the renewable energy and environment. How to make full use of the resources for you company ? The best way is do a constant at the beginning. We are pleasure to provide some help to the students like you. Secondly, the University will open a new campus at Shanghai with a Science Park. If you want a office in this park you can not only use the resource within the new campus, but also you can get a grant for the company. China is a huge market, you will have more opportunities.


Xiaoyu, Zhang, an professor for Zhejiang University. We exchange some more specific ideas about the model of centers or institutes in the UK. she will run a centers adopt my idea when she back to China. I am look forward. 


Ruixia Liu, form Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She said we can do some projects together when we back to China in Beijing or Tangshan.


I seen a interesting poster about biomass fuel use in Nigeria by Oluwakemi Akintan. It is present the situation of some developing countries not only Nigeria. Some suggestions to her, maybe useful. The project can get investment for  CDM , The World Bank  or small grant form GEF. A Case: A series of programs is now working to provide more energy, while safeguarding the environment by using renewable sources.

Social Network is powerful and the world is so small.

Notes:

Part of these new activities will be undertaken in the new Energy Technologies Building (ETB), due to open in 2011. This £6.5 million project (part funded by the European Regional Development Fund and Wolfson Foundation) will have state-of-the-art laboratories and prototyping hall to undertake research and the development of new energy technologies, helping to take research from the lab-bench to the next stage in the innovation chain.

The ETB will also be a research and development hub for collaboration with industry, helping companies bring new products to market through proof-of-concept and demonstration projects. The ETB will also have a hydrogen refuelling station and electric vehicle charging points to demonstrate and undertake research on low-carbon vehicles.

The University of Nottingham is at the forefront of research and development in the crucial areas of energy, climate change, environmental protection and sustainability. The University’s Energy Technologies Research Institute (ETRI) is a major international centre for energy research, with a reputation for excellence across a broad range of research and technology-based activities and a team of over 50 academics, encompassing bioscience, social science, chemistry, physics and engineering.

ETRI has an impressive research portfolio, funded by Government, industry and the EU, and includes several significant national and international collaborations.

Nottingham academics are leading two of six research projects within the national £27m BBSRC Sustainable Bioenergy Centre announced in January 2009 — the biggest ever single UK public investment in bioenergy research.

A further 50 scientists are engaged in complementary energy-related research. At the University Park campus in Nottingham, a close of Creative Energy Homes is nearing completion — each house has been designed as both a showcase of energy-efficient living and a ‘living laboratory’ helping researchers to develop and test sustainable construction techniques. At the University’s China campus in Ningbo, near Shanghai, the award-winning Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies is also becoming a focal point for research in the heart of the world’s fastest-growing economy.

Professor Walker said: “Through high quality training of researchers we can deliver the energy leaders of tomorrow”.

The University of Nottingham has a broad research portfolio but has also identified and badged 13 research priority groups, in which a concentration of expertise, collaboration and resources create significant critical mass. Key research areas at Nottingham include energy, drug discovery, global food security, biomedical imaging, advanced manufacturing, integrating global society, operations in a digital world, and science, technology & society.

Through these groups, Nottingham researchers will continue to make a major impact on global challenges.

The CDM allows emission-reduction projects in developing countries to earn certified emission reduction (CER) credits.