Physicist

Lives in Colorado Rockies

Energy expert

His biggest project

Helping the U.S. get completely off oil by 2040s

Ultimate goal
U.S. energy policy

keep wasting lots of energy

12. Amory Lovins

import "energy"at whatever prices and whatever means are necessary

keep stealing from our kids

keep screwing up the climate

Recognized as one of the most creative thinkers on energy use and misuse

Investment in energy
Unexpected other cnditions

Private and public investments has shrunk in the last decades

Consequences
Droughts
Reducing global warming
Severe weather conditions

Reducing CO2 emissions

Like a sandwich

Innovative business models

Reducing effects of global climate change

Reducing individual carbon footprint

Chance to meet inapetitable human for energy

Savings

Solar dancing

5. What is this about?

The more sunlight = more juice they produce

3. Solar cells

Top = protection

1. Intro
Payback

Small electronic devices

Middle = silicon (where action occurs)

Increasing worldwide demand for electricity

Bottom = base
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Important source after 70's oil crisis

Threat of electruction - Pres. Carter

Can solar power produce enough electricity to meet the demands of energy of 21st
century?

Solar Energy - Saved by the Sun

Collector of solar history

Needs to buy electricity from other places

Intense heat waves = more electricity

Peak use (A/C on) = blacouts

Grid managers
Solar enthusiastic

2. Kazmerski

6. Alternative Energies

Present when solar started in the US - President Carter

Ask companies/municipalities to turn off

Efforts to conserve energy

Fear over nuclear accidents

Website and Podcast 4 the curious: MAINE SOLAR HOUSE

Nuclear energy

Virtually carbon-free

Powers 150,000 homes in Greater LA area

Passionate advocates 4 solar power

Needs to get cheaper

Renewable: solar and solar

4. Solar power adoption

Solar houses

occupy area bigger than NY Central Park

Don't have the nuclear's drawbacks

largest solar power plant in the world

change = motivated by oil crisis

Bill and Debi Lord

Offers on-site tours to convert houses

Extreme winters = more heating

7. Needing for power

3h driving from LA
Industrial designer

Mojave Desert

Phill Reavis Jr

8. Solar Thermal Power Plant

Sommerville, MA

built 20 years ago = response energy crisis

Kramer Junction

For home uses

Solar electric panels

1st to go solar in the community

Uses parabolic-shapped mirrors

Net metering

Phill pays less than a half

Reaches up to 750 degrees Fahrenheit

Uses synthetic oil

Sells the surplus to the grid

Net metering
Solar hot water panels

Incentives to go solar (US)

Leader in solar cell production

Massachusetts = 50% off investment

More and more renewable

Walls of solar panels on the roads

1) Illinois / 2) Wisconsin / 3) Minnesota / 4) Florida / 5) California / 6) Nevada / 7) Massachusetts / 8) Maine / 9) New York / 10) Vermont / 11) Connecticut / 12) Maryland / 13) Delaware / 14) New Jersey

80% of the people support the Clean Energy project

14 states

Watched Jan. 14, 2015

9. Germany

Nathan Lewis

To buy: shop.wgbh.org

Nano solar paint

NOVA DVDs

National Renewable Energy Act

CalTech professor - nano technology

ahead on schedule: close to 30% by 2020

Layer of something conductor of electricity

0. About the movie

Wires to transport energy

2007

Leading advocate

Layer of the solar paint

56 minutes

Hermann Scheer
20% of renewable energy by 2020

Uses titanium oxide (TiO2)

ISBN: 978-1-59375-721-2

Put a positively charged coat over the Lewis's paint to freed electrons
prices fixed for 20 years to build huge solar structures

Flexible solar sheeting

cash incentives

More power than conventional panels

50 cents to sell

California's plan to get solar panels on a million roofs

Solar power + wind (2007) less than 1%

Photovoltaic panels

13. Final considerations

11. Technologies

20 cents to buy

Solar heat panels

U.S. need to achieve 20-30% of solar power + other renewables to significantly reduce
CO2 emissions
Multijunction solar cell

Sterling Burnett
Energy Policy Analyst

Is this target realistic? (20%-30% solar)

Don't think 20-25 y it is going to be 20%

Several layers of light-absorbing materials

Jigar Shah - CEO

miniature version of a conventional solar solar cell

harness energy in different energy bands = more efficiency
technology used in the robot that is being used in the Mars robot by NASA

company and its investors pay the solar systems

SolarEdison
contractor promises to buy buy power over a long-term contract

National Renewable Energy Lab

Larry Kazmerski
Fairly certain that it is by 2025 - 25% from solar

10. Promising trend led by business

Solar panels complements but not replaces energy from the grid
Jennifer McDonnel - green missions specialist
Roof covered with solar panels

Whole Foods Market

Solar provides only 15% of the year round store needs

The panels supplies from 50%-100% daylight needs
Daylight fares are the most expensive ones
Fixed prices for 20 years
Because of that - prices are predictable