Collected Works Bookstore presents Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Laughlin for a discussion of his latest book, Powering the Future: How We Will (Eventually) Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow.   In Powering the Future, Laughlin transports his readers two centuries forward, when fossil fuels have run out and seemingly outlandish notions have been tested --- like sending remotely controlled robots under the sea for pockets of geothermal heat, manipulating animal manure to produce microbe-generated fuels, even mining landfills as a carbon source.

Robert B. Laughlin is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1985. In 1998 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the Fractional Quantum Hall effect. As a theoretical physicist, he has broad research interests spanning physical science and engineering, and has made contributions to the theory of high-density plasmas, semiconductors, superconductivity, magnetism and quantum criticality. His current research focuses on high-density nonvolatile computer memory and energy storage.

Powering the Future: How We Will (Eventually) Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow (Hardcover)

By Robert B. Laughlin

$24.99

ISBN-13: 9780465022199
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Published: Basic Books, 9/2011

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