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Biofuels: energy, food and people
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| Date: | Thursday, March 13, 2008 |
| Location: | The Hillside Club 2286 Cedar St. Berkeley, CA 94709 |
| Speakers: | Tad Patzek, Professor of Geoengineering at UC Berkeley. Prior to joining Berkeley in 1990, he was a researcher at Shell Development in Bellaire, Houston, where he worked on the enhanced oil recovery methods and evaluated the future of U.S. energy supply from tar sands, heavy oil, oil shale, and coal. Shell Development was created and managed for 20 years by Dr. M. King Hubbert, who in 1956 predicted that oil production in the U.S. would peak in 1970. Dr. Patzek has a Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from the Silesian Technical University in Poland, where he also studied engine}t zo zo pt t 8t t t atical modeling of earth systems with emphasis on fluid flow 9 ;m ;m ;m o ,m ! 8$ * ;m ! 8$ s Tm HUP p *m b*-R HUP *m ! 8$ s HTm |-m INT p ! F INT 1m pTm pTm p p ! 8$ * 81m main:: main main Sɜ INC 1h/per9 (Wm `n HWm 1m
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| Extra: | Free wine tasting by Parducci Wine Cellars and Wine.com. Free food provided by Acme Bread Company and The Cheeseboard Collective. |
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