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“The world’s energy system is at a Ellen B. Stechel, Ph.D Deputy Director, LightWorks crossroads. Current global Professor of Practice, School of Molecular Sci- trends in energy supply ences [email protected] and consumption are @EllenStechel patently unsustainable — environmentally, economically, socially. But that can — and must — be Bruce Rittmann, Ph.D altered; there’s still Director, Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology time to change the Regents’ Professor, School of Engineering and the Built Environment road we’re on.” * [email protected]

- World Energy Outlook, 2008 *But time is running out. William Brandt Director, Strategic Integration, LightWorks Director, Business Development, ATP3 [email protected] the @wrbrandt Harnessing

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www.asulightworks.com Light-inspired Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation (AzCATI) serves as a statewide and international hub for research and development on has developed a algae-based fuels and products. Algae Testbed Public-Private Partnership (ATP3) is a network of new model for the American research university, Solar Fuels solutions open algae testbeds led by AzCATI with collaborating creating an institution that is committed to partners from national laboratories, academic, and excellence, access, and impact. ASU pursues Artificial : The Center for Bio-Inspired industrial institutions. ATP3 tests and evaluates research that contributes to the public good, Solar Fuel Production (BISfuel) develops artificial algae systems and technologies in order to generate and ASU assumes major responsibility for the components that mimic and improve upon those used in high-impact data for developing lifecycle and techno- natural photosynthesis, such as more broadly absorbing economic assessment models. ATP3 also offers a variety economic, social, and cultural vitality of the antennas, more robust reaction centers and catalysts of relevant education and training opportunities. communities that surround it. for oxidizing water and producing , and builds www.azcati.com and www.atp3.org www.asu.edu systems that combine these components to produce solar fuels. solarfuel.clas.asu.edu Photosynthetic Factories and Biomass to Energy: Photosynthetic microorganisms grow using sunlight, Solar Thermochemical Fuels: Solar thermochemistry water, and CO2. One research focus is to engineer harnesses the sun’s magnificent thermodynamic value these microbes to produce and excrete fuels and in the form of heat to drive mechanical engines that products of commercial value to facilitate low-energy produce electricity or chemical reactors that convert harvesting and downstream processing. A second focus water and carbon dioxide back into a chemically reduced is on improving the performand of anaerobic digestion and usable form. Current research efforts at ASU focus the converts biomass to methan gas. An exciting LightWorks is an Arizona State University on thermodynamics of the functional materials and alternative is microbial electrochemical cell (MXC), in initiative that inspires and develops ways to systems analyses of solar hybrids and active metal whih anode respiring bacteria (ARB) work in syntrophy revolutionize the use of energy and the large oxide thermochemical cycles to store solar energy, to with fermenting bacteria and homo-acetogenic bacteria split water to make H , and to split CO to make liquid scale conversion of sunlight, carbon dioxide, and 2 2 to convert complex organic compounds in biomass into hydrocarbon fuels. water into useful products. We support creation electrical power or valuable products. http://environmentalbiotechnology.org of new industries not just to power the world, but to empower it; not just to create wealth for a few, but to enrich people’s lives everywhere; not Cross-Cutting Platforms just to light an energy revolution, but to enlighten LightSpeed Solutions communicates exciting CO Capture communities across the globe; not just to achieve innovations for technologies, business and policy on 2 Electrochemical Capture: ASU with industrial energy security, but to secure energy justice. the roadmap to marketable and sustainable low-carbon and academic collaborators is developing a novel transportation options. We are passionate about www.asulightworks.com electrochemically mediated, energy efficient, CO - recycling waste CO and redrawing boundaries for 2 2 extraction system to capture and release a concentrated sustainable fuels and products. LightSpeed Solutions CO stream from waste emissions to facilitate CO hosts the Future of Sustainable Transportation Fuels 2 2 recycling and reuse. The electrochemical device will run Sustainable Fuels Forum, which includes a free four part webinar series continuously on any source of electricity, and will be low and workshops to engage the range of future fuels in capital and operating costs. stakeholders in conversations about the future of and Products Air Capture: The Center for Negative Carbon sustainable transportation fuel production and use. www. Emissions (CNCE) is advancing carbon management Sustainable Fuels and Products is a lightspeedsolutions.org technologies that captures carbon dioxide from ambient coordinated, interdisciplinary network of Life Cycle and Techno-Economic Assessment: air in an outdoor operating environment. Our aim is to researchers within LightWorks that addresses ASU builds comprehensive models using operational demonstrate systems that over time increase in scope, high impact opportunities to enable and advance data to assess the sustainability impact and economic complexity, reliability, and efficiency while lowering the the production of sustainable fuels and products viability of various emerging technologies such as algae cost of carbon dioxide capture from air, and provide biofuels, biopolymers, and other products, microbial the sustainable energy infrastructure design critical to to meet society’s grand sustainability challenges. achieving a carbon negative energy economy. www. LightWorks coordinates and develops strategic electrochemical systems, solar thermochemical fuels and storage, concentrating solar technologies, and engineering.asu.edu/cnce/ collaborations between our researchers and new photovoltaics in order to inform about high-leverage potential partners. research challenges