2nd RealTek Meetings on Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Ronald Stein, P.E. is an engineer, U.S. Citizen, energy consultant, speaker, author of books and articles on energy literacy, environmental policy, and human rights, and Founder of PTS Advance, a California based company. He advocates that energy literacy starts with the knowledge that renewables, like wind and solar, do different things than fossil fuels. Renewables only generate occasional electricity from unreliable breezes and sunshine but are incapable of supporting the supply chain of products and transportation fuels demanded by today’s societies and economies. Ronald is an Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, policy advisor on energy literacy for The Heartland Institute, The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and National TV Commentator- Energy & Infrastructure with Rick Amato. Ron is a columnist of Op Ed articles on Energy Literacy at America Out Loud NEWS https://www.americaoutloud.news/author/ronald-stein-p-e/. He is co-author of three books that focus on energy literacy, and an internationally published columnist, and speaker. His books are easily available from Amazon: The 2021 Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations, the 2020 book Just GREEN Electricity, the 2019 book Energy Made Easy.

Professor Maziar Arjomandi is a leading expert in fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, energy systems, and atmospheric boundary layer research, with a strong focus on renewable energy applications including wind turbines, solar thermal systems, photovoltaic farms, and heliostat development. He leads the University of Adelaide node of the HelioCon - the Heliostat Consortium for Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power, a US National Renewable Energy Laboratory led consortium focused on improving component performance for the concentrating solar-thermal power industry. His research encompasses wind load analysis, atmospheric surface layer characterisation, and flow control technologies - all critical for the development of robust renewable energy systems. As the Director of the University of Adelaide's Industrial-Scale Wind Tunnel and the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Research Facility, he combines expertise in fundamental research with extensive experience in the industry-focused commercialisation of advanced energy technologies.