April MRES Speaker

April's speaker for the Minnesota Renewable Energy Society's meeting, Brandon Hathaway, is working on some really interesting fuel production methods using concentrated solar. This link will take you to his power point presentation, and this one will take you to the audio recording of his presentation I made with my iPod before I realized my phone does much higher quality recordings. Enjoy!

MRES billed the event this way:
"Join us for the next MRES Board Meeting on April 9 at Flannery Construction. Our guest speaker will be Brandon Hathaway from the University of Minnesota, who will discuss solar fuels and solar thermal research at the U of M. Research at the Solar Energy Laboratory in the department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Minnesota considers several approaches for harnessing the most plentiful energy sources available to us on Earth, radiant energy from the sun. Some of the newest approaches to utilizing solar energy on a larger scale are the production of solar fuels that may be utilized to offset traditional non-renewable fuels. This presentation will focus on these solar fuel projects, which produce hydrogen and other gaseous fuels which may then be utilized in many different ways.

Brandon Hathaway is a graduate research fellow at the University of Minnesota working on a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering studying solar energy and solar thermo chemical processes under professors Jane Davidson and David Kittelson. Originally from Huron, South Dakota, he obtained his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute Indiana in the spring of 2007 and now resides in the Marcy Holmes neighborhood of Minneapolis."