Global Climate and Energy Project

We are a founding sponsor of Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University, which is now in its sixth year. GCEP conducts fundamental research on new technologies aimed at:

• Lowering the cost and increasing efficiency of solar photovoltaic devices
• Studying fuel cells and bioelectric conversion of energy
• Increasing the energy capacity of lithium-ion batteries for applications in vehicles
• Applying thermodynamic principles to design engines that produce higher efficiency and lower emissions
• Producing biodiesel fuel from bacteria to achieve a 20-fold increase in energy yield
• Increasing knowledge of hydrogen bonding to create new strategies for using hydrogen to power vehicles
• Improving the performance and lowering the cost of carbon capture and storage

Due to the nature of the challenges being addressed by its research, many of the technologies being developed at GCEP are years, perhaps decades, away from widespread adoption. In the decades ahead, we hope scientists and companies will use GCEP’s findings to develop broad-based, commercial energy systems with significantly lower GHG emissions, especially in the key areas of electric power and transportation.