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We started in Europe , with a stop in Russia and then moved via Africa to South America. He is supported by two bloggers who will spend six months travelling across six continents to report on exemplary projects defining local energy markets. Together with leading energy experts – our customers, prominent policymakers, opinion leaders and scientists – our CEO Dr Michael Suess has been discussing the challenges and opportunities of energy systems in various countries and regions around the globe. We also started a collaborative summer schoolin a small Guatemalan mountain village to explore collaborative learning with Guatemalan and Californian students.Since the end of April, Siemens has been on the Road to Daegu heading for the 22nd World Energy Congress in South Korea. You can see some of our projects at: Our Appropriate Technology Classes. We have been teaching collaborative appropriate technology classes at Cal Poly since 2007 when I introduced them to the curriculum. Please access my videos and resources dedicated to 'Energy, Society, and the Environment' at this website.

These classes and the websites are under continual development, and I’m happy to communicate with interested instructors. I’ve also developed a video curriculum for Energy, Society, and the Environment, a class I’ve directed since 2007. All my materials for the class can be accessed via my classes website. I describe the learning style in this paper. I am also exploring an alternative way to teach physics classes, and in particular for introductory mechanics where I have invoked what I call “Parallel Pedagogy” (where concepts are developed simultaneously) in a flipped classroom methodology based on video lectures. Our research group and students from appropriate technology classes are exploring opportunities to collaboratively introduce these technologies along with domestic lighting and cell phone charging systems at the grass roots level with AidAfrica in Uganda, and Kuyere! In Malawi. The technology is briefly described in this publication and video. Our Photovoltaic Electric Cooking technologies may be important in poor communities by displacing biomass fires and the associated deforestation and indoor air pollution responsible for an estimated 4 million deaths annually - more than malaria and AIDS combined. Presently the traditional “3 stone fires” consume resources, tax families’ time and financial resources, produce CO 2 and emit other pollutants. One particular interest is cooking in poor countries.

Dr. peter schwartz free#

How will free solar electricity and micro processing affect the way we use energy? My students and I work with these and other energy/environmental/society questions with implementations at my home, on campus, at the Student Experimental Farm (where I am the projects facilitator) and with partners in communities lacking electrical infrastructure. Already the cost of PV panels is a small portion of the cost related to PV deployment. Simple “Moore’s Law” extrapolation of the well-established price decrease of both photovoltaic (PV) panels and integrated circuits will render these technologies essentially free. Our research team develops radically inexpensive DDS (Direct DC Solar): using DC electricity directly from solar panels.

My classes are “flipped” with all instruction from online videos, freely available on my Shared Curriculum Website. Besides physics, I teach classes on Appropriate Technology, and Energy, Society, and the Environment. Subsequently, I took sabbatical in the Energy and Resources Group at UC, Berkeley. The changes to our house and lifestyle make our home a laboratory, documented in this video and this book chapter. I transitioned to sustainability research from nanotechnology in 2006 due to a realization after I purchased a house for the first time: that I would now hold myself accountable for the way I live. In what I see as an imminent transition in energy, resources, and information, I am interested in both the technologies and the related societal transitions. I’m interested in sustainability in all facets: energy, resources, equity, and collaboration and community building especially with people in developing countries. B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986.