Gamechangers | Eric Isaacs | Talks at Google

"Gamechangers: Energy Science, Innovation, and the Future of America."
In the National Laboratory system, we are working on new energy technologies that could transform the ways we generate, store and use energy, and that could protect our environment while recharging our national economy. But as we tackle the fundamental scientific research we need to discover and develop disruptive new energy technologies, it's worthwhile to ask: What does it really mean to change the game? What does game-changing technology look like, and what are currently our best prospects for gamechangers? Ultimately, can we really change the energy game in this country? I believe the answer is yes -- but only if we bring together the right people and give them the right tools to address the right questions. --Eric D. Isaacs
Bio: Eric D. Isaacs, a prominent University of Chicago physicist, is President of UChicago Argonne, LLC, and Director of Argonne National Laboratory.
Before becoming Argonne Director, Isaacs served as Argonne's deputy laboratory director for programs, with responsibility for leading the laboratory's strategic planning process and overseeing the laboratory-directed research and development program as well as its educational programs.
Earlier he distinguished himself both as director of the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne and as professor of physics in the University of Chicago's James Franck Institute. During his 13-year tenure at Bell Laboratories, he was a member of the technical staff, director of the Materials Physics Research Department and director of the Semiconductor Physics Department.
He received a Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 in the area of magnetic semiconductors and was a postdoctoral fellow at Bell Laboratories (1988-1990) studying magnetism and correlated electronic systems, mostly with synchrotron-based X-ray techniques.

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I'm glad to hear Directors Isaac's opinion on manufacturing in the US. We need to focus on domestic high end technology production. I would like to hear his views on Rep. Garamedi's "Make it in America" bill. It focuses on spending tax dollars on domestic products and funding for renewable resources research and development.

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No doubt we need better batteries. But not for vehicles. All automakers have been very clear that the future for EVs is the integration of storage (batteries) and fuel conversion (fuel cells). (2015 is the production year for Daimler, Honda, Toyota, Kia, et al. Love science he is dealing with.. but think we need to recognize role molecule fuels will likely play in EVs. Not enough character spacing to counter H2 or fuel cell skeptics--but challenges are being address w/ storage, MEA costs.

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