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READING	Name	Agenda Item
Dance of molecules ch 4: energize	Tracy Breslin	pg 94 "Until now we have been living on borrowed energy." I'm not really sure what Sargent is trying to say here when he refers to energy as borrowed and I'm also not sure what he's trying to imply when he says, "Until now."
	Dan Schaffer	How much energy is required to create a gallon of gas from the fossil? We may have had an abundance of fossil fuels, with relatively low energy costs to extract and purify, but the energy to turn a dead dino into a gallon of gas must have been massive! Whatever it was, I hope it is much less than the energy to create a solar panel that generates the same amount of energy that gallon of gas holds.
	Rachel Ferebee	What kinds of incentives would we offer states, such as Nevada and Arizona, for hosting wide arrays of solar panels? Would there be any 'Not in My Backyard' views?
	James Johnston	The idea of having solar cells being able to run off of most of the infrared spectrum while not currently a novel idea does bring around minor efficiency enhancement to common house hold and insulation applications. If 5% to 2% of the energy consumption a day per house hold was reduced from cheap and inefficient solar cells would this make a dent in the consumption of energy that is primarily fueled by fossil fuels.
	Adam Neisius	One of the issues behind solar is that light won't be always available, al la night. If enough energy is gained from solar as said in the book then it possibly could be stored and used later or else the power system could be built around distributed systems of a variety of power generation systems. Either way massive changes will need to be done to the current power grid.
RPI’s nanoblades for hydrogen storage: http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2318	Andrew Starr	It's pretty interesting how they can apply these blades. It is interesting to think how blades can be used as batteries to store hydrogen and other potential uses for this technology.
	Heather Lautman	I think it is pretty cool that these kinds of discoveries and research are going on here at RPI. What I also think is cool is how not only are the discoveries being made in how to produce the blades, but also, how to photograph them. At the end the article talks about the RHEED advancement over using x-rays. As the drive for learning about nanotechnology is increased, applications that help this drive could possibily have other applications.
Henry Etzkowitz Solar versus Nuclear Energy: Autonomous or Dependent Technology? Social Problems, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Apr., 1984), pp. 417-434	Matt Naples	Do people in the USA still feel the same as during the Cold War, claiming that Nuclear Energy is a dangerous plan for the future. What is going to be done as our new Presidential candidates start to fix our energy problem? Both have been talking about adding it to their plans for removing ourselves away from oil.




Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road http://www.wired.com/cars/futuretransport/magazine/16-09/ff_agassi?currentPage=all	Andrew Nelson	Agassi has a great idea I just don't see it working here in the US. Not refining oil would cripple some areas of the US (ie. the Gulf Coast). To me it looks like the US may be one of the last countries to get on board. It will be much easier to have his plan come to fruition in Europe because it is much more densely populated which allows for them to be less dependant on oil in the first place.
	Galen	Agassi's plan is a good one and a great way to open up the market for electric cars. In some ways his plan is intermediary though. Once the technology for electrical storage is comparable to or better than using gasoline there will not be a need for some aspects of his planned infrastructure but its not really that big of a deal. The way he is going about it now is the way it needs to be done to get things going now.
	Alex L.	The last line of the article, "It's true. Shai Agassi has only one car, no charging stations, and not a single customer—yet everyone who meets him already believes he can see the future," makes me think about general receptions of of the public to new ideas. Depending on the personality and the environment a speaker has and is in an idea will be accepted or dejected. The idea of electric cars has been around for ages, does it really just takes the right promoter to get an idea off the ground? How many ideas has society thrown aside because their was no immediate problem and no loud mouth promoter?
	Jim McKenna	"Shai Agassi has only one car, no charging stations, and not a single customer—yet everyone who meets him already believes he can see the future." Why is it that America is so reluctant to readily accept this technology, what are we waiting for and why? Also, what would happen with the tens of millions of gas cars that are currently on the road, do they just get sent to land fills or recycled?
	Joyce Chow	Agassi's idea for implementing the electric car is quite revolutionary. I am glad to read that he is actually testing the system in Israel. But I feel that America will have a hard time adopting this idea even if it becomes a trend. "If Better Place is to live up to Agassi's revolutionary goal, it will eventually have to win over Americans, the world's largest per-capita polluters. But that won't be easy." Why is it that America always talks about going green and becoming more eco-friendly, but we have such a hard time actually doing it, especially when the proposals and plans are already there for us?
	Mike	In Agassi's plan, Better Place plays an essential role in energy management. For instance, does AutOS need to detect competitors' charing stations or battery changing stations? It seems as though Better Place is in a position to design a lot of control into the system.
	Christine O'Rourke	I think that Agassi has a great idea that would be really go for the environment but I do see some problems with using it in this country. The first would be that people who travel long distances probably would not want to always have to wait to get their battery swapped out for a charged one while traveling. I would also be interested in how Agassi would propose to implement this system into public transportation, for example would buses be able to run off a battery and if so would it affect the amount of buses and workers needed to keep a similar schedule to the ones the buses can keep now.
	Andrew Krushelnyski	traffic boom



	Joyce Chow	(accidently was erased)
Posted on an item from last week	Andrew Cunningham	"One may add that far-reaching transformations of the human body by technological means would raise questions of identity, e.g. with respect to the distinction between "having" and "being a body." Would we want to become something that could potentially be owned by someone else and have slavery all over again? A professional's body could be owned by them and they would not have the right to choose what they feel is right to do with their body.
	molly
	Grant Boucher
	Charlie	converging technologies: "“wholly new kinds of rigorous research on the nature of both culture and personality” and a unification of knowledge by combining natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities" would this lead to a one culture world?