Share the Learning
Along the way, through my simple approach to learning (if you can’t draw a picture of the idea, you don’t understand it yet), I’ve accumulated a some useful understanding of the Nature of Nature – how our world works. I’m always flattered and delighted to be asked to share my understanding with others – from elected officials and elementary students. In the processes, I learn even more.
Public Presentations and Speaking Engagements
2014 Jamaica’s Smart Energy Island Lecture Series
Invited by the Japanese Embassy in Jamaica to give a lecture series on the synergies between Resilience and Sustainability
Post-ettes
Visual postcards of various aspects of the Nature of Nature – most created to help me understand how something works.
New York Times
2014 Jamaica’s Smart Energy Island Lecture Series
Invited by the Japanese Embassy in Jamaica to give a lecture series on the synergies between Resilience and Sustainability
2021 The Weakness of the California Grid
All the data is public. It isn't as pretty as you may want to think... or it might not be as bad as you had suspected. California routinely throws away a percent or two of fully paid for solar energy. Really. On typical spring Sundays, it is astounding. The data in...
2011 Colorado State Researcher Story-Images
2008-9 Solar Today Magazine Articles and Covers
It started when the photo editor of Solar Today magazine (the general publication of the American Solar Energy Society) reached out to me to see if I had any interesting photographs of wind turbines laying around on my harddrive. Of course I did! It landed on the...
2008 Indian Country News
Hot Plate Physics
What Happens When You Unplug a Solar Panel?
If you've every wondered what happens to the energy when a solar panel is unplugged, you're not the only one. If you think about it, when a 20% effecient solar panel (about average for the latest models) is generating electricity, about 20% of the energy from the all...