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Career Panel – Alternative Energies Paul M. Grant, W2AGZ Technologies Panel Discussion with local university physics students on career opportunities, based largely on personal career experience and 2014-15 APS Distinguished Lectureship Award on Industrial Physics.

Electric Power Delivered To Electric Power Delivered From Electrons Paired …And… Back Again ? -- A Personal Journey in Applied Physics -- -- IBM, EPRI, and Beyond -- Relevant to All Alternative Energy Discussions Paul M. Grant IBM (1953-1993) Joined 1953 (age 17) SAGE/NORAD (MIT) Clarkson/Harvard Magneto-optics Displays/Printers Organic Conductors DFT Superconductivity High-Tc Sabbatical (UNAM) EPRI (1993-2005) High-Tc Power Apps Wide Bandgap SCs Power Electronics “Safe” Fission “Smart Grid” “SuperGrid” Visionary Energy Societies W2AGZ (2005-?) Due Diligence Tet-CuO (Stanford) “Proxy” DFT RTSC via DFT IASS Potsdam Dual Use of Energy Delivery ROWs

Alternative Energies (PMG Definitions! Con Quidado!) “Non-Hydrocarbon-aceous” CH4 + 2O2  CO2 + 2H2O Must be Minimally Eco-invasive Wind Farms x Solar Farms x Solar Roofs  Nukes  Hydro ? Biomass ? Energy Transport ROWs ? Fuels/Storage Electrochemistry (aka “batteries”)  Pumped Hydro ? Hydrogen ?

Rotating Machinery - Wind Generators

Diablo Canyon 5

California Coast Power Diablo Canyon 2200 MW Power Plant Wind Farm Equivalent

Wind Power Factoids KK Wind Equivalent (8 GW) Power per Tower 8 MW Number of Towers 1000 Inter-tower Distance 1000 ft Total Area (miles x miles) 43.5 x 43.5 1 mile Kashiwazaki Kariwa: 8 GW !

Kashiwazaki Kariwa: 8000 MW KK 1 mile Unit 7: 1320 MW ABWR

US Wind/Nuke Comparison US Nukes (100 GW) US Wind Capacity (GW) KK (8 GW) Year

Fathers of Electric Power Faraday Henry Maxwell Thomson (Kelvin) Edison Tesla Steinmetz Insull Starr

What They Didn’t Teach Their Kids (Us) How to store lots of electrons for us to Recycle!

World Population: 1850 - 2100

Enfranchisement of Women Oops! Gotta be Politically Correct...Double-X Genotypes! Condi Rice Angela Merkel Tzipi Livni Hillary Clinton Margaret Thatcher Golda Meir Mary Grant Lubna Qasimi

La Profa. Dra. Maria Eugenia Lopez-Morales de Grant Chemistry Dept La Profa. Dra. Maria Eugenia Lopez-Morales de Grant Chemistry Dept., Ohlone College, Fremont, California > 50% Her Students -> UC, CSU 4 Year Degrees, 3 MDs from UC Davis

12-Year Old Devin Grant’s “ Big Data” Homework Assignment How many of GrandPa’s really silly 1953 IBM Punched Cards does it take... ...to fill up a 32 gig iPhone? Well? A stack about 30 miles high! > 3000 miles in a 4 TB home cloud! Wow!* That’s really “Big Data! ” So What’s Next? Putting Your 1’s & 0’s in a Black Hole? *Assumptions: 120 bytes/card Thickness = 0.007 inches