Solar-Proud

My wife and I got our start in solar energy way back in the 80's, as shown on this page . Our sites made the covers of Scientific American and Popular Science, as well as other news outlets around the world. We met each other because her father hired me to create all control and monitoring software for several of the world's biggest (at that time) solar energy power production fields. EJ worked summer shifts for her dad at that time, helping to crunch data and put her strong math skills to good use. That was the best job I ever had, working side by side with a team largely drawn from the Viking Mars Lander project, where we each had our strong niche, and cooperative in-house efforts were way more effective at making progress than at most all other places I've ever worked. The tax credits went away, and that caused the parent Oil and Gas company to drop us, but alternate energy has been my passion since. I've authored books on how to calculate high ac...