The Physics of Hot Air - with Shaun Fitzgerald

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Energy use worldwide continues to soar and buildings are responsible for a large percentage of this use.
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Join new Royal Institution Director Shaun Fitzgerald as he will reveal the surprising physics of hot air, and how using his research led him to revolutionise building ventilation with dramatic reductions in energy usage

Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/bXeBVTcVOCU

Shaun Fitzgerald is the Director of the Royal Institution and a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University. He is also the CEO of Breathing Buildings Ltd, a leading technology company pioneering hybrid ventilation systems. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2014.

This talk and Q&A was filmed in the Ri on 24 May 2018.

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