Let The Sun Shine, Let The Sun Shine In

TOP: An innovative "solar parking lot" array, Cools the cars, plus generated energy. Coupled with electric vehicle charging stations.

2nd A "utility solar array" composed of thousands of mirrors focused on a single cell

3rd: A full electric fleet SUV in use at UCSD. No emissions, equivalent of 100+ mpg

4th: Another utility array, sitting atop a public reservoir. Great use of land space
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Well, I'm off an running on my first "job search" trip. This trip is to sunny CA, where I'm doing a renewable energy conference in San Diego, and a Health conference in San Francisco. I've decided to look at 3 fields, renewable energy (solar and wind), health care (hospital and payer), and alternative transportation (hybrid vehicles and components). As I've looked at the market, I think these are 3 of the 4 fields primed to both take off and transform over the next 1-2 decades of my working life. (The 4th being genomics, but I think that's a few years out yet so I'm going to defer for right now).

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The solar show was incredible. I'd done a wind show a short while back, and it was maybe a thousand attendees, and few utilities. The solar show was just the opposite...500 companies, 18,000 attendees, big companies (SHARP, utilities, Kyocera) and joe's solar installation contracting. Many varieties of technologies...fat cell, thin cell, concentrated, mirrors, steam engines, just a whole variety of interesting things. I was fortunate enough to get to meet a slew of players across the industry, and they both educated and energized me about the possibilities of solar. And, this with oil touching $150/barrel, has to be a good alternative.

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"Sunchine" Lumpy out