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Building a Better Battery

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By Paul Caine Producer, WTTW’s Chicago Tonight

Originally published at: https://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2013/10/23/building-better-battery

Professor George Crabtree of Argonne National Laboratory discusses the quest to build a better battery and America’s energy future.

On Thursday, October 24, Professor Crabtree will team up with Chicago City Council on Science and Technology to present “The Price of Doing Nothing: The World’s Energy Future.” The presentation, which will explore the future of energy, takes place at 5:00 pm in Baldwin Auditorium at Northwestern University’s Chicago Campus.

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Price of Doing Nothing

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Chicago Council on Science and Technology presents:The Price of Doing Nothing: The World’s Energy Future

Energy determines the aspirations and the limitations of a society.

A vibrant global society fifty years from now requires strategic decisions regarding energy—how we will fuel our engines, power our lights and warm our homes tomorrow–be made today. Energy is a basic need of human society, like food, shelter, communication and mobility.

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Curious Chemical World

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Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST) presents “Science With A Pint: Our Curious Chemical World”

CHICAGO, Illinois (October 1, 2013) – Molecular modeling: we are not talking about ball-and-stick representations of single atoms or atomic structures, but rather the beautifully complex computer renderings of every atom in a living cell; how each atom moves within a molecule, and functions in its environment.

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