Ron Swenson P O Box 7080 Santa Cruz, CA 95061-7080 Phone: +1.831.425.8523

Publications

• How can we turn sun radiation into automotion? [Swedish Institute for Transport and Communications Analysis (SIKA) and the Centre for Sustainable Development (CHU), Stockholm, Sweden, 2007 November]

  Personal Rapid Transit (“PRT” or “Podcar”), a transportation alternative that does not require batteries or liquid fuels, is proposed to mitigate global warming, peak oil and congestion based on computered (driverless) vehicles that run on a solar-powered guideway suspended over existing highways.

• Biofuels: Science or Fiction? [Solar Today, 2007 July/August]

  Technologies that perpetuate our reliance on cars only divert us from a sustainable solution.

• Testimony, Hearing on Renewable Energy Technologies [House Science Committee, 2006 August 2]
  
  
• Dawn of the Solar Era: A Wake-Up Call. [Solar Today, 2006 March/April]

  The sun is the only energy source that can meet the oil depletion challenge. But solar energy ramp-up must be large-scale and immediate.

• Nurture Capital: A New Paradigm For Business

  Nurture Capital is a term to describe the paradigm shift that is transforming many businesses from a pattern of domination to the modus operandi of cooperation. This shift applies in the relationships between people acting together in business, and it applies to the relationship between the enterprise and its environment, broadly construed.

• Presentations and additional Publications

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updated 2006 December 22