Conference Videos
For over fifteen years, Bill Leighty has presented his co-authored research on alternatives to electricity systems, for “Running the World on Renewables”, at energy conferences in the USA and worldwide.
Because humanity’s task is so big — nothing less than transforming the world’s largest industry from about 80 % fossil to nearly 100 % renewable, CO2-emission-free energy sources, as quickly as we prudently and profitably can — we must think “beyond electricity” to carefully consider energy systems based on Hydrogen and Anhydrous Ammonia as convenient energy transmission and storage media, especially for “variable generation” like wind and solar, in complete, integrated, optimized energy systems at “distributed” to continental and global scales. The following conference presentations are largely redundant: a consistent theme which Bill advocates in diverse energy industry segments.
IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)
Bellevue, WA
18-20 October 2019
Total Decarbonization Strategies: Deep Hot Rock (DHR) Geothermal and Hydrogen-based Integrated Energy Systems at Global Scale
North America Smart Energy Week: Solar Power, Energy Storage, Hydrogen & Fuel Cell, Microgrid
Salt Lake City, UT
23-26 September 2019
Deep Decarbonization of Total Global Energy: Hydrogen and Ammonia C-free Fuels versus Electricity as Integrated CO2-emission-free (CEF) Energy Systems
International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2018, (IMECE 2018), ASME
Pittsburgh, PA
12-15 November 2018
Deep Decarbonization of Total Global Energy: Hydrogen and Ammonia C-free Fuels versus Electricity as integrated CO2-emission-free (CEF) Energy Systems
PowerGen International 2017
Las Vegas, NV
6 December 2017
Bigger Market for Renewables than the Electricity Grid ? Hydrogen and Ammonia Carbon-free Fuels for Transportation and CHP
NH3 Fuel Association 2017- American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE)
Minneapolis, MN
1-2 November 2017
Ammonia Renewable Energy Fuel Systems at Continental Scale: Transmission, Storage, and Integration for Deep Decarbonization of the World’s Largest Industry at Lower Cost than as Electricity
Electric Utility Environment Conference (EUEC)
San Diego, CA
8-10 February 2017
Bigger Market for Renewables than the Electricity Grid ? Hydrogen and Ammonia Carbon-free Fuels for Transportation and CHP
Intersolar North America 2016 Solar 2016-American Solar Energy Society
San Francisco, CA
11-14 July 2016
A Bigger Market for Solar than Electricity for the Grid: Hydrogen Transportation Fuel via Underground Pipelines, with Annual-scale Firming Storage
World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2016
Zaragoza, Spain 13-16 June 2016
Session 3: Countries Strategies, Associations, Assessments
A Larger Market for Renewables than the Electricity Grid: Hydrogen Fuel for Transportation and CHP
Windpower 2015
Orlando, FL 18-21 May 2015
Session 8B: The “Mostly Wind” Grid–Implications for Reliability, Markets, and Storage
Alternatives to Electricity for Transmission, Firming Storage, and Integration of GW-scale Wind and Solar via Hydrogen and Ammonia Pipelines
Juneau World Affairs Council
Juneau, AK 12 May 2015
Arresting Climate Change: Transforming the World’s Largest Industry
Ammonia Fuel Association, Eleventh Annual Meeting
Des Moines, Iowa
21-24 September 2014
Ammonia Fuel from Renewables-source Electricity, Water, and Air: Technology Options and Economics Modeling
ASME-IMECE – American Society of Mechanical Engineers, International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
Houston, TX
9–15 November 2012
Running the World on Renewables: Alternatives to Electricity for Transmission and Low-cost Firming Storage of Stranded Renewable Energy as Hydrogen and Ammonia Fuels via Underground Pipelines
National Hydrogen Association (NHA) annual conference
Long Beach, CA 4-6 May 2010
Begin Now: Design and Build a Renewables-Source Hydrogen Transmission Pipeline Pilot Plant
Stanford Reunion Class of ’65 Panel
Stanford, CA
22 October 2010
Risks and Responses to Global Climate Change
Use the timeline scroll bar to 18:49 min for Bill Leighty’s 15 min intro presentation.