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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,…


Renewable Energy (7 kinds)

• Solar

• Wind

• Biomass, Biofuel

• Hydroelectric

• Wave

• Tidal

• Geothermal


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)


Can group Clean Tech opportunity set

into eleven segments


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.


Ubiquitous, Everywhere


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HAN : Sensors in a Home

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Application of WSN to Smart Cities


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

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


LMID: Labor Market Information Division20Prepared by Dr. William Kao

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-

collar” trade jobs to Ph.D.-level engineers.21

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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.


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


For your attention27Prepared by Dr. William Kao

California Polytechnic InstituteContact for training seminars and courses in any aspect of

Green Technology

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