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Encouraging Engineering for Goals of Social and Environmental Justice

Encouraging Engineering for Goals of Social and Environmental Justice. Chris Schairbaum Director of Energy Technology Strategy Texas Instruments. Engineering Towards a More Just and Sustainable World APPE Mini-Conference  March 7, 2010. What would you rather die from? . 1) Climate change?

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Encouraging Engineering for Goals of Social and Environmental Justice

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  1. Encouraging Engineering for Goals of Social and Environmental Justice Chris Schairbaum Director of Energy Technology Strategy Texas Instruments Engineering Towards a More Just and Sustainable WorldAPPE Mini-Conference March 7, 2010

  2. What would you rather die from? 1) Climate change? 2) Oil wars? 3) Nuclear holocaust? The right answer – often left out – is 4) None of the above Let’s use energy in a way that saves money, because that will solve the climate, oil and proliferation problems – not at a cost, but at a profit… Credit: Amory Lovins

  3. TI Innovation & Energy: ”Make it, Move it, Use it™” 2000s 1990s Develops full systems-on-chip wireless communica-tion ICs Demonstrates the lowest power metering chipsets in history 1980s Introduces single-chip digital signal processor 1970s Spherical Solar Cell & LED Investment, and the Speak & Spell 1960s Invents first handheld calculator 1950s Demonstrates first integrated circuit 1940s Builds magnetic anomaly detection equipment 1930s Revolutionizes oil exploration with reflection seismography

  4. Low Power RF The Real World DataConverter Amplifier Logic Temperature Pressure Position Speed Flow Humidity Sound Light Identification Power Management Embedded Processing DataConverter Interface Amplifier Clocks & Timing TI wants to solve real world problems with integrated circuit products.

  5. Our Focus: Building a better future Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability: -The commitment of each and every Texas Instruments employee to accountability for the company's social, environmental and economic impact around the world.

  6. Sustainability The Triple Bottom Line The balance of People,Profit,and thePlanet Environmental Sustainability Ecosystem Integrity Carrying Capacity Biodiversity Environment Social Sustainability Cultural Identity Empowerment Accessibility Stability Equity Economy Society Economic Sustainability Growth Development Productivity Human Well-Being A sustainable system delivers services without exhausting resources. It uses all resources efficiently in both an environmental and economic sense.

  7. TI’s Path to Sustainability • Resource Conservation • Recycling: TI has decades of experience in recycling, currently recycling almost 90 percent of its non-industrial waste worldwide • Water Reuse: Extensive water reuse and reclamation practices are in place – about 1.5 billion gallons annually • Product Stewardship: TI produced its first lead-free semiconductor component in 1989. More than 30 billion lead-free TI components are in products worldwide • Green Buildings: Substantial annual budget for new and retrofitted buildings across the globe. • Employee Trip Reduction: This program keeps hundreds of cars off the road everyday

  8. TI Engineers at Work Digital & Analog ICs Efficient Motor Control & Variable Speed Drives Advanced Lighting & Controls Solar & Wind Inverter Electronics Information Technology & Computing Power Savings Smart Grid Infrastructure EV, HEV & PHEV Efficient Mobile & Consumer Electronics and Power Supplies

  9. Energy Harvesting - Advanced & Applied Lemon Power Grape Power Strawberry Power Kiwi Power Ultra Low-Power + Wireless Communications Yields Wireless Light Control Retrofits Tire Pressure Monitoring Bridge Monitoring

  10. TI’s Big Sustainability Leap: RFAB • Strategy Team - Fabscape • 5 strategy teams were formed in advance of project • The 5th team – focused on sustainability only • Generated early white papers on a number of ideas • Tour (Westbrook House – www.enerjazz.com/house) • Invited 3 VP’s to tour active/passive solar home • Low utility bills for “normal” house spurred interest • Design Workshop • Teamed up with Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) • Held 3-day design charrette to brainstorm ideas • Generated 15 “Big Honkin’ Ideas” to carry forward along with a large list of other good ideas • Made a first pass at LEED score sheet

  11. RFAB: Journey toward Sustainability

  12. Cost/Benefit • We invested less than 1 percent of the project cost (less than $1.5 million) in LEED-related items: • Predominately efficiency improvements that we would have considered regardless of LEED • Overall project cost was 30 percent less than our previous 300 mm fab • In the first full year, we should save $1 million in operating costs • At full build out, we will save more than $4 million per year: • 20 percent energy reduction • 40 percent water-use reduction • 50 percent emissions reduction • LEED Gold Certified Office and Fab • www.ti.com/rfab

  13. The Negawatt Negawatt (n) - a measure of energy efficiency; a unit in watts of energy saved Solar and wind may be sexy . . . . . . but efficiency yields the best financial and environmental benefits

  14. NegaWatts: The Argument for Efficiency 65% of all energy created is lost in the conversion & distribution process… this is why energy conservation is so important => 1kWh saved is 3.3kWh of energy source never consumed

  15. Make It Use It A Corporate Example • In 2007, an American Fortune 100 Company: • Installed 1.6MW of solar power • Costing $10M in gross capital ($3M Net) • Generating 2,000 MWh / year • Saving $0.2 Million / year • Providing a > 10% ROI • In 2007, Texas Instruments: • Implemented efficiency programs • Costing $1.2M in gross capital • (Generating) 14,717 MWh / year • Saving $1.5 Million / year • Providing a > 100% ROI Alternative energy ROI’s are improving dramatically, while Efficiency ROI’s are dramatic already

  16. Capitalism => Natural Capitalism Today we have a temporary aberration called “industrial capitalism” which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital… the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that. – Amory Lovins "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."- Einstein Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolutionby Paul Hawken, L. Hunter Lovins, Amory Lovins – 1999 www.natcap.org

  17. Revolutionary Idea First Industrial Revolution: Next Industrial Revolution: People are scarce and nature is abundant – increase labor productivity People are abundant and nature is scarce – increase resource productivity REduce REuse REcycle Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolutionby Paul Hawken, L. Hunter Lovins, Amory Lovins – 1999 www.natcap.org

  18. Thank You. Chris Schairbaum Director of Energy Technology Strategy Texas Instruments c-schairbaum@ti.com

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