West Coast Green, Fort Mason San Francisco, Oct. 1-3, 2009

West Coast Green is the largest conference on green innovation for the built environment.

On October 1st-3rd at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco 14,000 thought leaders and forward thinkers will convene to engage in dynamic, big-picture, systems-thinking to reinvent business, laugh, make connections, affect policy, and create meaningful and lasting positive change.

125 Speakers
80 Education & Networking Sessions
300 Exhibits

SMART GRID AND ENERGY STORAGE OVERVIEW

Speakers: Dr. Erfan Ibrahim and Haresh Kamath; Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Sunday, September 27, 2009, 10:00am - 4:00pm
Santa Clara University, Bannan Engineering Laboratories (Building 403 on campus map), Multi-Purpose Room
http://www.scu.edu/engineering/graduate/emergingtopics/SmartGrid.cfm

Hole in One in Utah! From Northern CA/Silicon Valley, Have a great weekend Everyone!

It's in the 90s here in Sept. in Northern California! Have a good weekend everyone!
(BTW, I had a hole in one in 2001 at a 9 hole course on SF Bay: Mariners Point, Hole #6 along the Bay, 88 yards with an 8 iron. Ro)

Young del Potro and Wild Card Clijsters rule the US Open!

Congratulations to Juan Martin Del Potro from Argentina and Kim Clijsters from Belgium for winning the 2009 US Open Tennis Championships! Dear Roger Federer, we are still your FANs in the U.S. and want to see you get even in Australia in January at your next major!!

Oceanographer Dr. James C. Kelley addresses the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco on 9/16/09

I enjoyed visiting the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce and hearing the distinguished Dr. James C. Kelley speak last night at the Argonaut Hotel. I have been enlightened, less inclined to adhere to alarmist theories and have a renewed motivation to support worthwhile pursuits like renewable energy for a healthy world future!

Clean Tech IPOs?

Are the floodgates for CleanTech IPOs about to Open? A123? Silver Spring Networks? Tesla Motors? Nanosolar? and Solyndra?

Great information was shared at The Smart Grid Conference in Los Angeles on 9/1/09.

Next, at Santa Clara University, one day seminar Sun., 9/27/09, $70:

SMART GRID AND ENERGY STORAGE OVERVIEW

Speakers: Dr. Efran Ibrahim and Haresh Kamath; Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Sunday, September 27, 2009, 10:00am - 4:00pm
SCU Bannan Engineering Laboratories (Building 403 on campus map), Multi-Purpose Room



Dr. Erfan Ibrahim is a Technical Executive in the Intelligrid program area of the Power Delivery & Utilization Sector. His current research activities focuses on the communications infrastructure for the utility Smart Grid with particular emphasis on Home Area Networks (HAN), Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Building Automation Networks (BAN), and Energy Management Systems (EMS).


Haresh Kamath is a Project Manager in the Energy Utilization program area of the Power Delivery and Utilization (PDU) Sector at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). His current research activities focus on the development, assessment, and application on energy storage technologies. He also coordinates energy storage activities in the energy efficiency and electric transportation areas and has recently taken on responsibility for coordinating nanotechnology activities in the PDU sector.

Good Luck in the US Open Roger!

Good luck Roger! We hope you win your 6th consecutive US Open in New York City this week!

Roger Federer
Born: August 8, 1981
Birth City: Basel, Switzerland
Height: 6-1
Weight: 187 lbs.
Hand: R Age: 28
Pro Debut Year: 1998

ATP World Ranking: #1

Federer has won 15 Grand Slam titles, breaking the previous all-time male record of 14 by Pete Sampras.

Federer holds the open era record for most consecutive US Open titles at five (2004–08).[3][4] Richard Sears(1881-87 US Open) and Bill Tilden (1920-25 US Open) won seven and six consecutive titles before the open era.

This year, he has won 2 majors already, The French Open vs. Robin Soderling, SWE (Nadal eliminated before the final on his historical clay), Wimbledon against a marathon with Andy Roddick, US. He lost the Australian open to the great Nadal this year; let's see what happens in January 2010!

We are enjoying all the talent on this tennis tour!!!