Green Technology
The Economy for the Future
Dr. William KaoMay 15, 2012
Empowering Global Economy Through Technology
Agenda
• What is Green/Clean Technology
- Renewable Energy ( 7 kinds)
- Energy Storage Methods (Batteries, Utility Scale)
- Smart Grid (T&D), Sensor Networks, Smart Cities
- Green Building (LEED, LED, Biomimicry)
- Green Transportation (EV, HSR)
- Clean Air, Water
• Green Economy: Career and Jobs
• Summary and Conclusion
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What is Clean Technology?
• “Clean Technology” is “ a diverse range of
products, services, and processes that harness
renewable materials and energy sources, dramatically
reduce the use of natural resources, and cut or
eliminate emissions and wastes.”
• Clean Technology includes the renewable energy,
energy intelligence and efficiency, smart grid, green
transportation (electric vehicles, HSR) energy
storage, advanced batteries, green buildings, lighting,
and water, air filtration,…
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Renewable Energy (7 kinds)
• Solar
• Wind
• Biomass, Biofuel
• Hydroelectric
• Wave
• Tidal
• Geothermal
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Clean / Green Technology
Green BuildingEnergy T&D: Smart Grid
Green Transportation (EV, PHEV) Energy Storage
HSR
LED: Energy Efficiency
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Clean Technology (continued)
Air pollutionOil spills
Waste waterWater treatment, desalination (RO)
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Can group Clean Tech opportunity set
into eleven segments
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Smart Grid (Energy Transmission & Distribution)
Smart Grid is a transformed electricity transmission and distribution network or "grid"
that uses robust two-way communications, advanced sensors/meters, and distributed
computers to improve the efficiency, reliability and safety of power delivery and use.
Think of a Smart Grid as an "internet routing network“ for Electricity, instead of for
Data.
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Ubiquitous, Everywhere
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HAN : Sensors in a Home
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Application of WSN to Smart Cities
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Green Building ZEB
Biomimicry LED lighting
Green Building
Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design
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LED ,CFLs, and Incandescent Lights compared Energy Efficiency Energy Usage
Environmental Impacts Durability
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CNG: Compressed Natural Gas LPG: Liquefied Petroleum Gas18
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The paradigm shift in transportation, from ICE
vehicles to advanced electric-drive vehicles
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Clean Technology Economy
• The clean-energy sector is delivering new job and economic
opportunities, as it moves from a once-marginalized niche to an
increasingly cost-competitive, mainstream offering.
• Green-job naysayers often question the validity of green jobs,
stating that there‟s no clear definition for what constitutes a
green job and that any new jobs in clean tech simply displace
jobs from other sectors, creating no new net jobs.
• But clean-tech jobs are not amorphous as these critics claim,
and instead represent some of the most dynamic sectors in the
technology landscape, including electric vehicles (cars, trucks,
and rail), energy storage, green-building materials,
advanced lighting, solar power, wind energy, and the smart
grid.
• Green jobs can pay well and span the spectrum from “green-
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Clean Tech Economy
• Money invested in clean energy, creates two to four jobs for
every one job created if the money were spent on fossil fuel
industries.
• Many of these jobs can‟t be exported, as they are based
heavily on local jobs in installation, operations, and
maintenance.
• CT Manufacturing is not „Outsourced -Proof‟.
• Industrial leaders in the U.S., China, South Korea, Germany,
Japan, and other nations, responding to this opportunity, are
now vying for clean-tech leadership and the jobs that come
with it.
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Summary and Conclusion
• We covered what is Green Technology
• Also talked about Green Economy
• Smart Products, Smart Grid, Smart Homes,
Smart Cities
• Green Career / Jobs
• Importance of Sustainability
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California Polytechnic InstituteContact for training seminars and courses in any aspect of
Green Technology