Join us for a free session exploring alternative energy, focusing on solar energy and electric conversion and storage. Remarks will be given by Dr. Marie K. Mapes, a photovoltaic technology manager in the Solar Energy Technologies Program with the United States Department of Energy.
Additional presenters include faculty from The University of Toledo's Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Engineering:
* Dr. Alvin Compaan - solar electricity
* Dr. Krishna Shenai - electric conversion and storage
Sponsored by The University of Toledo
College of Engineering and the Natural Sciences
and Mathematics Alumni Affiliates
Thursday, Nov. 20 at 4:30 p.m.
in Nitschke Auditorium
Light refreshments
Engineers earn two continuing
professional development credits or units.
Register by Nov. 18 to the UT Office of Alumni Relations online or by calling 419.530.2586 or 800.235.6766.
We might want to ask Dr. Mapes why the Chinese can manage to heat water in black plastic tubes in great proliferation on their rooftops, yet Americans still heat their water with electricity and natural gas.
We might also ask her why after many decades of knowing what a solar electric cell is, we still don't have consumer-sized and -priced systems on the market.
I'd probably want to go on and ask what all this worthless Fusion Power funding is for these days, but my tolerance for a corporatized economy would probably reach its limit.