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Cross-Posted from the Berkeley Science Review. Original article.

Authors: Daniel Aranki, Roel Dobbe, Jaime F. Fisac, and Cathy Wu

You are heading home...Read more about Automating Us – The entanglement of people and machines

Cobalt is the most expensive raw material used for building lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion batteries are used in smartphones, laptops, and electric vehicles. In the past year, the price of refined cobalt has been above $20k. Also, in the past 5 years the demand for this element from...Read more about Where does cobalt used in smartphone batteries come from?

Join us for an exciting, in-depth presentation of emerging cleantech solutions from Caltech, Princeton, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...Read more about 7th Annual C2M Symposium

BERC China Focus is pleased to have hosted monthly Coffee Chats with researchers and professionals in the field of energy and environment this semester. In this series of three Coffee Chats, students discussed green technologies, research experiences, and career decisions with Yaosen Tian...Read more about BERC China Focus Coffee Chats

This past weekend, nearly 40 participants from UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, and the Bay Area gathered for Brave New Hacks, the 4th annual BERC Cleanweb Hackathon. The event was a huge success, and 7 teams made pitches at the end of the 24-hour event in front of a panel of judges,...Read more about Potato Solar and Visualizing Gun Violence Take Home Top Prizes at Brave New Hacks

Energy Week 2016 was the biggest one yet, with three action-packed days of events, starting with a keynote address from Tom Steyer, featuring 2 panels on energy entrepreneurship, a design thinking workshop, and a second keynote address from cleantech investor Ira Ehrenpreis.Our journal team has...Read more about Energy Week 2016: Recap

This year, one of our goals at the SEC has been to have continuous engagement with the energy community at Stanford, especially outside of our main events like Energy Week and Energy 360. As a result, we’ve had members and officers take part in some very interesting events, and get the...Read more about SEC Activity Roundup – November Edition

Given recent events, including the election of a climate denier and coal buff as President, Thanksgiving conversations might be even more awkward than normal. Luckily, us folks at the SEC have your back – we’ve compiled a list of all the great energy news that will both reassure you for...Read more about Energy Roundup – Give Thanks Edition

On November 2, 2016, BERC held its annual 2016 Resources Roundtable, featuring the Water-Energy Nexus. Attracting over 100 UC Berkeley students, faculty, and professionals, the conversations shed light on current and anticipated challenges to the water-energy nexus, as well as steps towards...Read more about Challenges and Opportunities for our Water-Energy future

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This year BERC will participate in the annual Big Give campaign organized by UC Berkeley. This year’s theme is the “Berkeley effect”: The butterfly effect explains change. The Berkeley Effect changes the world. If a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can cause a tornado in Texas, then...Read more about Support BERC during this year’s Big Give campaign, 11/17

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The Paris Climate Agreement covers 98 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Its adoption in 2015 at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and recent ratification create an unprecedented opportunity to address our...Read more about BERCShop: Mobilizing Finance for the Paris Climate Agreement

What is the cost of scientific misunderstanding? How many lives are lost as a result of false assumptions and inaccurate data representation? More importantly, what can I do, as a scientist, to address these misunderstandings and save those lives?

Everyone has probably heard of the kids...Read more about Let’s Teach Kids to Ignore Nuclear Lies

The electricity industry is going through a transformation unlike anything since the days of Edison, Insull, Westinghouse,...Read more about Getting into Hot Water at a Utility

In the past year, Venture capital (VC) funding for early-stage cleantech companies seems to have mostly dried up. The good news is that other cleantech investors are stepping up to fill the void- including our own University. But before diving into the details of...Read more about Early Stage Cleantech Funding – If VCs won’t do it, who will?

A recent study out of Harvard concludes that press coverage of the ongoing presidential campaign rarely includes policy specifics. Yet college-age...Read more about Presidential Candidate Renewable Energy Policies

For two weeks this August, students from around the world gathered at UC Berkeley for the first ever Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp. The goal? To train the next generation of nuclear professionals to generate ideas and solve problems with significant real-world impact.

Though nuclear energy...Read more about Pioneering the future of nuclear energy innovation

Every two years, the energy efficiency community gathers on the beaches of Pacific Grove, CA to attend the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy Summer Study. This community ranges from engineers...Read more about BERC Goes to ACEEE Energy Efficiency Conference

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