Kicking off a four-part series that brings together leading scientists with conservation experts, The New York Academy of Sciences will host Energy for the Next 20 Years: Protecting the Environment and Meeting Our Demands on January 12, 2012. Speakers will discuss potential solutions to the energy crisis, including conservation, base-load capable renewables, politically palatable nuclear energy, and carbon capture and storage, as well as price differentials between renewable and fossil fuels, nuclear energy storage and proliferation, the need for new biofuels, and the potential increase in hydro power in the developed and developing world.