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Biography 1

Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947) is an American physicist, environmental scientist, writer, and Chairman/Chief Scientist of the

Rocky Mountain Institute. He has worked in the field of energy policy and related areas for four decades. He was named by Time

magazine one of the World's 100 most influential people in 2009.

Lovins worked professionally as an

kilowatt-hours of electricity; they want energy services. In the 1990s, his work with Rocky Mountain Institute included the design of an ultra-efficient automobile, the Hypercar

.

Lovins does not see his energy ideas as green or left-wing, and he is an advocate of

free market economics. He notes that Rupert Murdoch

has made News Corporation carbon-neutral, with savings of millions of dollars. But, says Lovins, large institutions are becoming more "gridlocked and moribund", and he supports the rise of "citizen organizations" around the world.

Lovins has received ten honorary doctorates and won many awards. He has provided expert testimony in eight countries, briefed 19 heads of state, and published 29 books. These books include

Small is Profitable, Brittle Power, and Natural Capitalism

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Biography 2

Hermann Scheer (April 29, 1944 – October 14, 2010) was a

German Bundestag (Parliament), President of Eurosolar (The European Association for Renewable Energy) and General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy. In 1999, Scheer was awarded the Right Livelihood Award

for his "indefatigable work for the promotion of solar energy worldwide".

Scheer believes that the continuation of current patterns of energy supply and use will be environmentally damaging, with

renewable energy economy. The main obstacle to such a change is seen to be political, not technical or economic. In 1999 he was one of the initiators of the German feed-in tariffs

that were the major source of the rise of renewable energies in Germany during the following years.

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Biography 3

Hans-Josef Fell (born 7 January 1952 in

Green Party in the German Parliament. Fell framed the German Renewable Energy legislation, together with Hermann Scheer. He currently serves as spokesman on energy for the Alliance 90/The Greens

parliamentary group.

Fell has travelled to many countries to discuss

French government

has also shown great interest in drafting a renewable energy law similar to the one in Germany.

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Biography 4

Rolf Disch is a German architect,

environmental activist who has contributed greatly to the advancement and efficiency of solar architecture internationally. Born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, Disch has dedicated particular focus to regional renewable and sustainable energy

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As head of his own architecture firm,

PlusEnergy

concept, by making it a permanent goal for his buildings to produce more energy than they consume in order to sell the surplus solar energy back into the grid for profit.

Rolf Disch’s biggest venture was completed in 2004 with the 59 PlusEnergy home

Sun Ship building. In June 2009, Disch launched the 100% GmbH organization, with the aim to make Freiburg and its surrounding district the first 100% sustainable renewable energy

region in the world.

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Biography 5

Denis Hayes (1944– ) is an

Earth Day Network and expanded it to more than 180 nations. During the Carter Administration, Hayes became head of the Solar Energy Research Institute (now known as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory), but left this position when the Reagan administration cut funding for the program. Since 1992, Hayes has been president of the Bullitt Foundation

in Washington.

Hayes has received the national Jefferson Awards Medal for Outstanding Public Service as well as the highest awards bestowed by the

The Humane Society of the United States, the National Wildlife Federation, the Natural Resources Council of America, the Global Environmental Facility of the World Bank, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, and the American Solar Energy Society. Time

magazine named him as “Hero of the Planet” in 1999.

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Biography 6

Augustin Mouchot (April 7, 1825 – October 4, 1911) was a

steam power

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Mouchot was born in Semur-en-Auxois, France on 7 April 1825. He first taught at the primary schools of Morvan (1845–49) and later Dijon, before attaining a degree in Mathematics in 1852 and a Bachelor of Physical Sciences in 1853. Subsequently, he taught mathematics in the secondary schools of Alençon (1853–62), Rennes and Lycée de Tours (1864–71). It was during this period that he undertook research into solar energy, which led eventually to his obtaining government funding for full-time research.

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Biography 7

David Faiman (born 1944 in the United Kingdom) is an Israeli engineer, physicist, and expert on solar power. He is the director of the Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center and Chairman of the Department of Solar Energy & Environmental Physics at Ben-Gurion University's Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research in Sde Boker.

He is Israel's representative to the Task 8 Photovoltaic Specialist Committee of the International Energy Agency and co-authored their book Energy from the Desert: Practical Proposals for Very Large Scale Photovoltaic Systems.

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Biography 8

Stefan Krauter is

Renewable Energies. His activities in research, teaching and business are directed to establish a global sustainable energy supply. He specialized in the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity - photovoltaics

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He initiated and organized in

UNCED

Earth Summit of Rio 1992 in that area.

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Biography 9

Jeremy Leggett, a geologist by training, began his career as a consultant for the oil industry, while teaching at the Royal School of Mines. He later became an environmental campaigner for Greenpeace, before evolving into a social entrepreneur and author.

Jeremy Leggett is currently executive chairman of

Geological Society

, and in 1987 the Geological Society's Lyell Fund.

In his 2009 book, The Solar Century, Leggett is critical of nuclear power, saying that investing in nuclear power would mean less money for other initiatives involving energy conservation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. Leggett also states that carbon capture and storage has a "substantial timing problem" as it will take fifteen to twenty years to introduce the technology.

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Biography 10

Benjamin K. Sovacool is Director of the Danish Center for Energy Technology at

Wall Street Journal and the San Francisco Chronicle. Sovacool is an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Contributing Author.

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Biography 11

John I. Yellott (1908 – 1986) was a scientist internationally recognized as a pioneer in

passive solar energy, and an inventor with many patents to his credit. In his honor the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

(“ASME”) Solar Division confers a biannual "John I. Yellott Award" which "recognizes ASME members who have demonstrated sustained leadership within the Solar Energy Division, have a reputation for performing high-quality solar energy research and have made significant contributions to solar engineering through education, state or federal government service or in the private sector."

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