Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence (LPBI) Group

Robert Armstrong
Director, MIT Energy Initiative

• All Country making commitments
• Developing world will have growth in energy demand
• Developed Country – demand is flat
• Solar system: Sun Set no energy generated except at midday, no energy storage
• How to incentivize Solar energy without antagonizing the Utilities?

The Future of Solar Energy

Yet-Ming Chiang
Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering

• Battery Energy Storage Caucus
• Deployment of Grid Battery Storage
• Lithium Ion – Cost of battery is coming down – Why battery cost so much?
• Cost of Battery is high because of 25 years old technology: 25 separate layers 14 inactive material layers in 1mm cross section
• SOMA – SOuth of Masss Ave: 24m is a battery technology spin off MIT in Cambridge, MA
• Grid cell data – Cycle life vs Calendar Life (1 year to 25 years)
• Compact modular battery manufacturing in Cambridge, MA
• Energy Storage: The Future of – Seasonal Variation in energy insulation
• SUlfur from oil/Gas Refining
• Sulfur vs Lithium battery cathodes
• Capacity vs duration in Seasonal energy Storage

Building Storage for the Grid

Leslie Dewan
Cofounder and Chief Science Officer, Transatomic Power

• Design of a Nuclear reactor that operates completely on Nuclear Waste
• 60s and 70s new reactors till 1979 – the Three Miles Accident
• Harness the Power of the Atom
• New approach to Nuclear waste: 270,000 waste in storage
• Oak Ridge, TN Nuclear Waste
• 4% of the evergy out of Uranium – conversion to Molten Salt reactor
• dissolve the uranium to 96% waste, this waste will remain active hundred years
• Moderator: 1960s Graphene in 2015 Zicor
• Salt: 2015 – Lower enrichmenr compact and cheaper
• 2 material changes: Therman, Epithermal Fast: ZrH1.6 Graphite Un moderated
• Continuous Energy Supply to pour water to cool off the reactor
• Freeze valve Auxilliary COntaminant – freezes solic
• 520 Maga  – replacement of Coal Plants
• Overcome Public opposition to Nuclear energy

DISCUSSION Moderation NRC – a roadblock to Nuclear Promotion

• 43 Design Companies of Nuclear Reactors around the World
• NCR works with DoE to commercialize new innovation
• Battery industry: Radical architecture change in Battery design is needd: Electromechanical machine
• Storage of energy is a topic for research worldwide
• India: 300Million no acccess to electricity
• Collaboration on Advanced Nuclear Reactor Design emerged by Oak Ridge, TN Lab between US and China
• CA has three Unitilies – Long range transmission
• China and India will benefit from Nuclear technology, In China traditional design and Advanced Designs
• US-China, US-India, US-Brazil – Commitments to reduce emission

Rethinking Nuclear Power

Joseph Coray
Vice President, Technology & Life Science Practice, International, The Hartford Financial Services Group
Presented by the Hartford Financial Services Group

• Lloyd’s of London: Emerging Risks: form Technology High Certainty vs Low
• Financial risks High Uncertainty to Low Certainty
• Technology as CATALIST
• Technology as DISRUPTOR
• Data & People: Insurance World – Claim DATA: Fraud (10% of Claims paid are representing Fraud) and Reimbursement
• Harford Insurance: Use of Data to prevent Fraud
• Harford.Health.works (HHW):  Needs in Medical Technologies – Entrepreneur
• Facilities: Incubators, programs, Design & Test Training – Job creation in advanced manufacturing
• HHW: Strategic Initiative for the City of Hartford in Medical Technologies
• Hartford Financial is supporting HHW: Wellness in the Community: Schools, Investment, Training

Please Follow on Twitter @Pharma_BI and at following Meeting @Techreview, @Jason_Pontin and #EmTechMIT

General meeting @

@EmTechMIT   (note this is general meeting @)

@medialab

@techreview

@MIT

@Pharma_BI

@Boston

@TechHubBoston

@Wired

@techinboston

General meeting #

#EmTechMIT (Note this is the Meeting Hashtag)

#medialab

#TechnologySpotlight

#tech

#startup

#innovation