My 1st Post

I am one of you desperate to defend the climate.

I am not trying to prove any identity, but I am an avid reader and subscriber to the Time, The Business Week, The Atlantic, USA Today, Consumer Report, PV magazine, Reader’s Digest, Kiplinger’s Retirement Report, and other engineering and construction related magazines.

And I care to share with my readers, what I feel vital to our survival as a species, and welcome their feedback.

My posts will show what other countries are desperately deploying to fight temperature rise, in which area they are far ahead of us, what powerful means we have in our arsenal as a group or individual, what statistics support our progress or regress, how feasible are solar panels, and what is the healthy role of governance and politics.

All my posts are methodically selected excerpts, with respectful acknowledgement to the source, summarized and tailored for a quick glance, keeping the meaning and the message intact.

It is that careless procrastinating mind-set, which accepts this low percentage of residential installations of solar panels (1) (2), setting the statistical guidance to measure how successful our determination to deal with the climate crisis, as more households with solar panels are hopefully added.

My promise to my granddaughter Penelope, is to share my sincere belief, through daily posts, with homeowners, solar contractors, company decision makers, government officials, researchers, utilities, developers and policymakers, aiming to utilize our powerful collective and personal efforts to reduce global warming.

Talk to you soon.

Ayman Jureidini, PE

Owner

Penelope Solar & Engineering, LLC

www.penelopesolar.com

(1) According to DeepSolar Project: 8.14 solar systems per 1,000 household in Maryland, 0.79 solar systems per 1,000 household in South Dakota, and the highest is in California 49.40, as a few examples

(2) By the end of 2020, around 1.3 million photovoltaic systems were installed on one- and two-family houses in Germany. An analysis by EUPD Research confirms an overall saturation of eleven percent (110 per 1,000) . Regarding the federal states, Baden-Württemberg reached the highest saturation with 21 percent (210 per 1,000)