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Ronal Larson (left)
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Ronal
Larson
Dr. Ronal Larson is a retired professor of
electrical engineering Georgia Tech and former branch chief and
principal scientist at the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI), now
the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden. He
received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
His U.S. solar energy activities began in 1973 as a
Congressional Fellow when he worked on the first two solar bills
passed by Congress. His fellowship continued for an extra year with
the now disbanded Congressional Office of Technology Assessment.
Starting in 1996, Dr. Larson served for seven years as
the volunteer coordinator of the “stoves” Internet list. His stoves
and international interests grew out of leading a U.S. Agency for
International Development project in Sudan in the early 1980s. That
activity in turn grew out of being the principal author (while at
SERI) of the U.S. National Paper for the United Nations Conference on
New and Renewable Sources of Energy held in Nairobi, Kenya in 1981.
As president of his own consulting firm, he has worked on solar and
stoves projects in Brazil at the 1992 Rio Conference, Sweden,
Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Kyrgyzstan, and South Africa at the 2002
Johannesburg World Summit for Sustainable Development.
Paul Notari
Paul Notari heads a small firm, SciTech
Communications, that publishes technical documents devoted primarily
to renewable energy. He is the editor and publisher of CRES News, the
monthly newsletter of the Colorado Renewable Energy Society. In 1996
he, along with Dr. Ronal Larson, founded the Colorado Renewable Energy
Society (CRES) and served on the CRES Board of Directors.
From 1979 to 1992 Notari worked for SERI as manager
of technical information programs. He served on the Board of Directors
of the American Solar Energy Society from 1981 through 1992, and in
1990 and 1991 was elected chair. In 2000 he was named an ASES fellow.
In early 2005 he was reelected to the ASES Board of Directors, where
he serves as chair of its Renewable Fuels and Transportation Division.
From 1952 until 1979, Mr. Notari held positions as
director of publications for the American Water Works Association,
director of communications for the Computer and Business Equipment
Manufacturers Association, and manager of publications and training
for Motorola, Inc. He also served three years as a guest professor in
the Business School of Northwestern University. He served in the U.S.
Navy from 1944 to 1946; obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in
Physics from DePaul University in 1952 and a Master of Science Degree
in Business from Rollins College in 1967. Notari is listed in Who's
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