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Enabling Innovation in Appropriate Technology by Joshua Pearce

Enabling Innovation
Enabling Innovation

Associate Professor Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) coauthored an article, “A New Model for Enabling Innovation in Appropriate Technology for Sustainable Development,” in Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 8(2), pp. 42-53, 2012.

From Tech Today.

A new model for enabling innovation in appropriate technology for sustainable development

In the “Internet Age” more than one billion people continue to live in impoverished conditions inferior to those of the Minoan Civilization…

Read the full article at Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy

Pearce Publishes on Snowfall and Photovoltaics

Associate Professor Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) coauthored an article, “Prediction of Energy Effects on Photovoltaic Systems Due to Snowfall Events,” in the 2012 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC).

From Tech Today.

Prediction of energy effects on photovoltaic systems due to snowfall events

The accurate prediction of yields from photovoltaic systems (PV) is critical for their proper operation and financing, and in northern latitudes the effects of snowfall on yield can become significant.

Read more at IEEE Xplore.

Solar power said viable in snowy regions

“Sometimes snow actually helps solar cells,” Michigan Technical University researcher Joshua Pearce said, referring to the albedo effect, when sunlight reflects off snow.

Read more at UPI.com.

Pearce on Renewable Energy Forum Panel

Proposal 3
Proposal 3

The campus community is invited to an educational forum on Proposal 3, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Thursday, October 25, in Forestry G002. The November ballot initiative, if approved would require electric utilities to provide at least 25 percent of their annual retail electricity sales to be from renewable energy sources by 2025 (25×25).

The forum will feature the panel: Associate Dean Leonard Bohmann , Associate Professor Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) Professor Ezra Bar-Ziv (ME-EM), who will discuss wind power, solar power and biomass electricity, followed by Q&A session.

Public Forum on Proposal 3: Michigan’s Renewable Energy Ballot Initiative

Read more at Tech Today.

Mechanics of Micro- and Nano-Textured Systems: Nanofibers, Nanochannels, Nanoparticles and Slurries

MSE SEMINAR
Thursday, October 11, 2012
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Room 610, M&M Building

Mechanics of Micro- and Nano-Textured Systems:
Nanofibers, Nanochannels, Nanoparticles and Slurries
Dr. Suman Sinha Ray
Dean’s Fellow and Post Doctoral Research Associate
Multiscale Mechanics and Nanotechnology Laboratory
University of Illinois at Chicago

Suman Sinha Ray Abstract October 11, 2012

Pearce Presents on Recycling

UPRC
UPRC

Associate Professor Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) presented “The Progress and Potential for Distributed Household Recycling” at the 24th Annual UPRC (Upper Peninsula Recycling Coalition) Recycling Conference in Iron Mountain, Wednesday, Sept. 26.

Recycling could bring more money and jobs to Michigan

The conference gives recyclers throughout the U.P. an opportunity to get together to talk about what’s new and ways to improve programs, for both consumers and businesses, throughout Michigan.

Read more and view the video at Upper Michigan’s Source, by Beth Cefalu.