The 62nd Annual Lindau Meeting: 'The Energy Endgame'
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 16:30
in Physics & Chemistry
In the next 100 years or so, we will run out of fossil fuels. In the film below, Nobel laureates Mario Molina and Robert Laughlin challenge three young physicists at this summer’s Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting in Germany to think seriously about the energy endgame and their children’s futures. Molina thinks we can solve the looming crisis through international collaboration--as happened after he showed that CFCs were damaging the ozone layer. Laughlin disagrees. He wants engineering solutions, and says nations will go to war unless we find them. [More]