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Greenery for improving Solar Power output in Brisbane by 10% to 25%.

Program of the Half-Day GINA Inc Lecture on February 4, 2010, at the Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Campus, Brisbane.

COST: $100 per person (cash or cheque at venue).

8.00am: Registration begins. Tea/coffee provided.

8.30am: Lectures begin. First Speaker: Geoff Wilson, President, Green Infrastructure Network Australia Inc (GINA). Welcome to participants and an outline of the case for well-designed urban greenery (roofs, walls etc) in Australian cities, and the case that will be made for "Greenery for 10% to 25% extra Solar Power".

8.50am: Introduction of Professor Manfred Kohler, from the University of Applied Sciences, Neubrandenburg, Germany, who is President of the World Green Infrastructure Network. He will outline what Germany is well-achieving in use of greenery to enhance solar power production by 2% to 12% a year. He will explain why Germany has half the world's solar power collection units, and the economic place its solar power industry is expected to now have in reduction of carbon use.

9.30am: Introduction of Professor Janis Birkeland, Professor of Architecture, Queensland University of Technology, who will outline the opportunities in Australian architecture for much more greenery in innovative urban design and improved built-environment management for much lower carbon use and municipal water use.

10.00am: Morning tea/coffee/biscuits.

10.30am: Introduction of Brian Chua, a student of the University of Queensland, who completed an important thesis in 2009, showing that Brisbane and other Australian cities should be able to improve solar power collection by using greenery under or nearby to solar power collection equipment - with Brisbane's expected better result through greenery cooling being 10% to 25% extra solar power collection.

10.55am: Professor Manfred Kohler's second presentation - explaining the kind of greenery and green roofs used in Germany for improving its solar power collection, and providing a pictorial view of its current practice and possible directions for its future development.

11.25am: Geoff Wilson outlines GINA Inc. interest in promoting Brian Chua's proposed research and demonstration projects in Australian cities in conjunction with Australian National University and CSIRO. Both the ANU and CSIRO solar power advances will be briefly explained. So will the case now strongly developing for cheaper solar power collection units.

11.35am: Speaker's Q&A Session and discussion. Questions and answers on greenery and solar power combinations.

12.00noon: End of lectures. Distribution of speaker notes.