Energy has become a central issue in today's Society, mostly because of its cost.
We hear that we are wasting energy, that we cannot produce enough energy that we are running towards an energy crises.
Actually, energy cannot be wasted, it cannot be produced!
Energy is always there. The problem we are facing is how to exploit different forms of energy putting them at work for us.
What are the big issues of today and what can be the answers to them to let our children enjoy and even better world?

These and more, are the topic we will be discussing in "The Future of Energy cycle".

22 September 2010 – 5.30 PM CET (free entrance)
What is energy?
The word energy is being used in everyday's talk with a meaning that is not what physicist associate to this word. This difference is important and if we want to understand what the energy issue is all about we need to understand the real meaning of energy, the one that physicists have discovered over the last two hundred years.
In this first part we will look at the physical means of energy, at its various forms, including the one that was discovered by Einstein in his special theory of relativity e=mc2

6 Optober 2010 – 5.30 PM CET (free entrance)
Renewable energy production
The problem is not to create energy, which is impossible, but to transform one energy form into another.
In this part we will look at the various technologies that have been invented to do just that, from the hydro electrical, to fossil fuels, to photovoltaic, to nuclear plus some less know technologies, like the one used by living things.

6 Optober 2010 – 5.30 PM CET (free entrance)
The use of energy today and tomorrow’s challenges
How much energy is being used today to make our Society tick, our homes comfortable?
What is the situation in other parts of the world?
We will look at various aspects of our life and discover how much and what type of energy is being used.

16 November 2010 – 5.30 PM CET (free entrance)
Green Energy
The transformation of energy cannot go on forever, since at a certain point it energy will have been transformed into a type that can no longer be used. But before we come to that point we have to face other challenges, like the growing cost of energy transformation and the creation of some undesirable effect, like the greenhouse effect.
These are the challenges that we need to face now and the choices are many, with no silver bullet on sight.
Therefore we should also look at how we can use less energy, at least in the short term, like the next 30 years. After that period technology may have evolved to the point of solving, at least part of, the energy problem.