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John Onderdonk on Decarbonizing Caltech’s Entire Campus

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John Onderdonk

Caltech, which has long been at the forefront of science & innovation, has been investing for years in its campus’ sustainability. VX News spoke with John Onderdonk, working out of the Linde Center for Global Environmental Science, on his role as Caltech’s Assistant Vice President of Facilities Operations and Services at the campus and the many efforts underway to modernize their grid and prepare for the future realities of climate change. In the interview, Onderdonk speaks of the challenges of meeting the demands of a “small city” (Caltech) and the challenge of, literally, building the airplane while you’re flying it.

Caltech’s Nate Lewis on Converting Scalable Sunlight-to-Fuel with Green Hydrogen

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Nate Lewis elaborates on what his research team discovered about converting electricity into fuel and green hydrogen’s role as a critical enabling technology for decarbonizing transportation fuels and scaling long-term grid energy storage