Webinar with Dr Jordan Phethean on the University of Derby's research into massive energy storage systems and water resources to combat climate change.
Dr Jordan Phethean is hosting a webinar on Thursday 5 November, running from 16:15 to 17:00, and it's one of the ways the University of Derby is opening up its research to anyone with an internet connection. The session is called Cutting Climate Change: The Great British Battery and Project RESCUE, and it sits right at the intersection of two very different problems that both come back to the same thing: how we handle energy and water as the climate changes.
On one side, there's the battery work. The 'Great British Battery' part of the title points to research into massive energy storage systems. The idea there is about the gap between when we make green energy and when we actually need it — storing it on a scale that can actually make a dent in how the grid runs. On the other side is Project RESCUE, which looks at novel water resource discovery. That's about finding new ways to secure water supplies, something that becomes a lot more urgent as weather patterns shift.
Phethean describes the work as being aimed squarely at combating both the causes and the effects of climate change. The storage side hits the causes — moving us away from fossil fuels by making renewables more reliable — while the water discovery side deals with the effects, the practical reality of living with a changing environment. It's a good way to see how the same university is working on both ends of the problem at once.
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It's a short session, just forty-five minutes, so it doesn't take up your whole afternoon. It's a webinar, which means you can tune in from home rather than heading into town. It runs from 16:15 to 17:00 on Thursday 5 November, hosted by the University of Derby.
