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Presentations by Ron Swenson, Swenson Technology

Date Title Audience Location
2013 November 2 Solar Skyways [PPT] Solar World Congress 2013, International Solar Energy Society Cancún, México
2012 September 19 Can Solar Podcars meet dramatic challenges of Post-Oil Society? Podcar City Berlin Berlin, Germany
2012 May 14 Personal Transportation, one hundred percent solar powered [PPT] Solar 2012, American Solar Energy Society Denver, Colorado
2012 March Solar Powered Personal Rapid Transit (ppt, 6 mb) Technology and Society Committee (TASC) Mountain View, California
2011 September Solar Skyways: Mobility in a World Beyond Oil (pdf, 33 MB) [Video (mov, 37 MB] [Podcast (mp3, 3 MB] Podcar City 5: Stockholm, Sustainable Transportation Conference Stockholm, Sweden
2010 May 19 X2M to 10X, Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) and new 21st Century Transportation Systems Solar 2010, American Solar Energy Society Phoenix, Arizona
2010 March 10 Wake Up Call: EastSide Rail Now! ... a Response to Peak Oil EastSide Rail Now! Bellevue, Washington
2009 December 10X: Solar Transportation Podcar City Conference 3: COP 15 Malmö , Sweden
2009 March West Hawaii Solar and Energy Efficiency One Island Sustainable Living Center, Workshop Kona, Hawaii
2009 February A Green Brown Bag Lunch about Building Orientation Barry Swenson Builder San Jose, California
2008 September Peak Oil and Renewable Energy (25 MB) [Video] Podcar City 2: Ithaca, Sustainable Transportation Conference Ithaca, New York
2008 May Solar Energy enters into UN Climate Change Negotiations (Panel) Solar 2008, American Solar Energy Society San Diego, CA
2008 May Solar Powered Personal Rapid Transit (PRT): Electric Vehicles without Batteries or Congestion, with R. Baertsch, UCSC [article] [ppt] Solar 2008, American Solar Energy Society San Diego, CA
2007 November How can we turn sun radiation into automotion? [article/pdf] [ppt] [calculations] Swedish Institute for Transport and Communications Analysis (SIKA) and the Centre for Sustainable Development (CHU) Stockholm, Sweden
2007 October Can podcars be driven by solar energy? [ppt] [Video] Podcar City 1: Uppsala
International PRT Conference
Uppsala, Sweden
2007 September Designing the Future College of Engineering, San Jose State University San Jose, California
2007 August The Next New Energy Thing Green Century Institute presents: Sustainable Communities, Salon Series Redwood City, California
2007 July Solar Powered Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) Solar 2007, Sustainable Energy Puts America to Work, American Solar Energy Society Cleveland, Ohio
2006 November Solar Power Potential with PRT [calculations] ATRA Santa Cruz, California
2006 August US Congressional Hearing on Renewable Energy technologies – research directions, investment opportunities, and challenges ... House Committee on Science, Energy Subcommittee San Jose, California
2006 July Solar Meets the Peak Oil Challenge , Forum on Peak Oil, Climate Recovery, and Renewable Energy American Solar Energy Society
Solar 2006
Denver, Colorado
2006 March Solar Energy and International Trade Monterey Bay International Trade Association Santa Cruz, California, USA
2006 March The Coming SolarEvolution China Renewable Energy Trade Mission 2006, Oakland Export Assistance Center, U.S. Department of Commerce Oakland, California, USA
2005 November New Energy -- Net Energy [ppt] ASPO-USA Denver, Colorado, USA
2005 August The Production Peaks in Petroleum and Natural Gas:
Information, Misinformation, Awareness, and Implications [pdf] [ppt]
International Solar Energy Society
Solar World Congress 2005
Orlando, Florida, USA
2005 May Peak Oil and Solar Energy [ppt] Post-Carbon Institute
Santa Cruz Chapter
Santa Cruz, California, USA
2005 May Renewable Energy Trade, The Coming SolaREvolution! [Press: Green technologies represent opportunity for NorCal companies] Monterey Bay International Trade Association Felton, California, USA
2004 July The Birthplace of Evolution: From Fossil Fuels to Renewable Energy in the Galapagos [pdf] and
Flat Roof Thin-Film PV Compared to Tilted Thin Film and Crystalline PV [ppt]
American Solar Energy Society
Solar 2004
Portland, Oregon, USA
2003 October Energy and Equity Monterey Institute of International Studies Monterey, California, USA
2003 June The Kiteship™ Project - Chapter 5 in the Continuing Saga American Solar Energy Society Austin, Texas
2002 March The Coming Global Oil Crisis and Solar Energy Potential in the Galápagos Islands La Armada del Ecuador, Galápagos Puerto Baquerizo, San Cristóbal Island, Galápagos, Ecuador
2002 February What Energy Will Our Children Use? Friendly Favors 3220, San Francisco, California
2001 August Symposium on the Energy Crisis: Sophisticated Interaction or Arbitrary Disorder Tricounty Alliance of Southern California Claremont, California
2001 April The Energy Crisis and Silicon Valley
Danger=CarbonOpportunity=Silicon
The Villages Alliance San Jose, California
2001 April The Kiteship™ Project - Chapter 4 in the Continuing Saga American Solar Energy Society Washington, DC
2001 April Advances in Sustainable Transportation American Solar Energy Society Washington, DC
2001 February The Oil Crash and You - or - Running on Empty League of Women Voters Santa Cruz, California
2000 October The Coming Global Oil Crisis Private Group by Invitation Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
2000 September Apollo 2: Solar Energy Meets the New Global Challenge Millennium Solar Forum 2000
International Solar Energy Society &
Asociación Nacional de Energía Solar
Mexico City, Mexico
2000 September The Kiteship Project (3) Millennium Solar Forum 2000
International Solar Energy Society &
Asociación Nacional de Energía Solar
Mexico City, Mexico
2000 June The Kiteship Project (2) American Solar Energy Society Madison, Wisconsin
1999 June Kiteships, Sailing Vessels Pulled and Powered with a Kite (1) American Solar Energy Society Portland, Maine
1998 June Chair, Sustainable Transportation Forum American Solar Energy Society Albuquerque, New Mexico
1996 October The Race to Develop Oil Alternatives New South Wales State Agencies: Urban Affairs and Planning, Transport; University of Sydney Sydney, NSW, Australia
1996 June Sustainable Transportation for a World Beyond Oil World Renewable Energy Congress IV Denver, Colorado
1996 June The Coming Global Energy Crisis Japanese Meteorological Research Institute Study Group San Jose, California
1996 January The Coming Global Oil Crisis Electric Vehicle Society Honolulu, Hawaii
1994 June Chair, Sustainable Transportation Forum American Solar Energy Society San Jose, California
1992 September Non-Renewable Fossil Fuels and the Potential of Solar Energy Mexican Association of Industrial Design Students Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico
1992 March Non-Renewable Fossil Fuels and the Potential of Solar Energy Taller Espacio Verde Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
1990 October NOPEC: Non-Oil Power Exporting Communities Asociación Nacional de Energía Solar La Paz, BCS, México
1989 April NOPEC: Non-Oil Power Exporting Communities American Solar Energy Society Austin, Texas

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