gar
Senior Member
- Location
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Occupation
- EE
111206-1754 EST
A local group called Spark is an incubator for new ideas and businesses. Included in it is a group called Michigan Energy Forum that meets monthly. A lot of the past presentations have been short on quantitative support for what is presented. Just qualitative --- we can generate power from the sun --- without a real value analysis.
This month's meeting on 12-1-2011 was much better, especially the talk by Valerie Brader. She is Chief Energy Policy Officer for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation appointed by our new Governor Rick Snyder.
The link to the video of the meeting is
http://www.annarborusa.org/events/video-library/mef12-11
You have to skip over or wait thru the introductory stuff before you get to her talk.
The other two presenters had some useful information. Paul Savage, a salesman, talked about their development of the worlds largest machine to make rotor blades. This is 240 ft long, is flat to within 0.001" over that distance, and parallel within 0.004". The goal is to build lower cost wind generators.
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A local group called Spark is an incubator for new ideas and businesses. Included in it is a group called Michigan Energy Forum that meets monthly. A lot of the past presentations have been short on quantitative support for what is presented. Just qualitative --- we can generate power from the sun --- without a real value analysis.
This month's meeting on 12-1-2011 was much better, especially the talk by Valerie Brader. She is Chief Energy Policy Officer for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation appointed by our new Governor Rick Snyder.
The link to the video of the meeting is
http://www.annarborusa.org/events/video-library/mef12-11
You have to skip over or wait thru the introductory stuff before you get to her talk.
The other two presenters had some useful information. Paul Savage, a salesman, talked about their development of the worlds largest machine to make rotor blades. This is 240 ft long, is flat to within 0.001" over that distance, and parallel within 0.004". The goal is to build lower cost wind generators.
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