*If you wish to attend just the DOE Listening Day on July 8, 2017, please select "DOE Listening Day - July 8 Only" as the registrant type here. The cost of this registrant type is $100 and includes access to all of the talks on July 8 and breakfast and lunch.* Engineered Carbon Reduction Listening Day: Advanced Strategies to Bypass Land Use for the Emerging Bioeconomy The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) is the nation’s premier technical office working to de-risk biomass supply chains and upgrading technologies to promote the emergence of the advanced bioeconomy. Recent trends in the deployment of cheaper and cleaner renewable power are providing new opportunities to not only enhance the efficiency of biomass conversion, but to fundamentally change how organic carbon is synthesized from carbon oxides. BETO is re-imagining the carbon cycle without photosynthesis, and is exploring technologies that can efficiently leverage renewable power to reduce carbon oxides and generate relevant organic chemical intermediates non-photosynthetically. Reduction approaches could include thermocatalytic, electrocatalytic, or biocatalytic platforms. Partnering with the organizers of the International Solar Fuels Conference, BETO is planning a technical listening session on July 8th at this year’s conference in San Diego. BETO will lead discussions about the state-of-technology of novel non-photosynthetic carbon reduction strategies, and will facilitate a round table discussion of experts in this field to identify the technical barriers and challenges to be addressed going forward. Speakers include: |