BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Near You Event - Ammonia talk - Royal Aeronautical Society and IMechE - 28 May 2026 - Leonardo iAero Centre at\n\nEvent Type: Talk or deb ate\n\nIndustry Sector: Energy transfer & thermofluid mechanics\n\nSpeak D etails: Mike is an engineer\, with an MBA\, a MSc in Environmental Change and management\, and a D. Phil in plant sciences and renewable energy. His current focus is on climate change where Mike has been active for over 30 years\, Mike has delivered several lectures to academia about decarbonisa tion.\n\nDescription : \n\nOutside the Box - rethinking aviation fuel'\n\n Climate change will be a global catastrophe\, but it's slow burning and ea sy to downplay. \; Geopolitical crises\, however\, can be urgent and i mpossible to ignore. \; Carbon is at the core of both problems. \; In a world that demands\, not 'net zero' but 'massively net negative' CO2 emissions\, emitting more carbon to atmosphere\, wherever it comes from\, will be hard to sustain. \; And as recent events have shown\, conveni ent fossil carbon comes with the political price of resource concentration and energy insecurity.\n \;\nThis talk will explore the dangers of im agining a carbon powered world\, whatever its source\, and the potential o f the rest of the periodic table to deliver the energy carriers we need be fore focusing on nitrogen as a hydrogen carrier. \;  \;Ammonia is a potentially safe\, sustainable fuel that can be moved\, stored and explo ited economically and made almost anywhere. \; The talk will briefly c over some of the advances currently being made in ammonia synthesis\, comb ustion and safety.\n \;\n\nSpeaker Bio &ndash\; Mike Mason:\nhttps://w ww.linkedin.com/in/mikemasonco2/\nMike is an engineer\, with an MBA\, a MS c in Environmental Change and management\, and a D. Phil in plant sciences and renewable energy. \; After a career as a practical mining enginee r in Africa\, Mike returned to the UK and worked for a while in the oil in dustry before founding his own IT startup. \; He has subsequently inve sted in a range of healthcare and green technologies\, with exits to JP Mo rgan and Mercedes Benz among others.\n \;\nHis current focus is on cli mate change where Mike has been active for over 30 years. \; He is cur rently on the Steering Committee of the MariNH3 multi-university group dev eloping combustion technologies for the shipping industry and chairs its I nternational Advisory Board. \; He is also convenor of the Green Ammon ia Working Group of academics.\n \;\nMike has delivered several lectur es to academia about decarbonisation and is a regular contributor on Linke dIn\nhttps://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/green-ammonia-a-potential-gl obal-reserve-fuel\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0-CqJCy3H0\n\n\nVenue - iAero Centre (Located within Leonardo Helicopters Airfield) )\, Bunford Lane\, Yeovil \, Yeovil \, BA20 2GL\, United Kingdom \;\n18:00 for a 1 8:30 start\nTea and coffee beforehand\, and time for networking.\nTalk 40- 50 minutes\, with Q&\;A.\n\n \;\n\nContact Details: Vishal Goyal\nA ddress: Exeter\, United Kingdom.\n\n Alternative Contact: Zoë Curtis\nAddr ess: Exeter\, United Kingdom. DTEND:20260528T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T174115Z DTSTART:20260528T183000 LOCATION:iAero Centre \, iAero Centre (Located within Leonardo Helicopters Airfield) )\, Bunford Lane\, Yeovil \, Yeovil \, BA20 2GL\, United Kingdom SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Ammonia talk - Royal Aeronautical Society and IMechE - 28 May 2026 - Leonardo iAero Centre at UID:103e346c-6a99-4c77-9da8-d113b9bca3dd END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR