Clean power from fossil fuels

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Abstract After taking a First in physics at Queen Mary College, London, and completing his research for a Doctorate, Dr Peter Chester spent seven years in North America, first as a Post-doctoral Fellow with the National Research Council in Ottawa and then at the Westinghouse Research Laboratory in Pittsburgh. In 1960 he returned to the United Kingdom to set up the Solid State Physics Section in the Central Electricity Research Laboratories (CERL); six years later he was appointed Research Manager (Sciences) at the Electricity Council’s Research Centre. Dr Chester moved back in 1970 to the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB), where he served successively as Controller of Scientific Services (NW Region), Director of the Central Electricity Research Laboratories, Director of the Technology Planning and Research Division, and, finally, Director for the Environment. When the CEGB was dismantled as a result of the privatization of the electricity generating industry, Peter Chester was appointed Executive Director for Technology and Environment on the Board of National Power pie. In 1984 he gave the Institute of Electrical Engineers Faraday Lectures and in 1985 was awarded the Robens Coal Science Medal. He has written extensively in the fields of solid state and low temperature physics and on energy and the environment. In 1992 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and to an Honorary Fellowship of Queen Mary and Westfield College. He is currently Chairman of National Wind Power Limited.