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19 Oct '12, 2pm

Dusk For Another Solar Pioneer: Stan Ovshinsky Passes Away October

In 1973 Stan Ovshinsky, President of Energy Conversion Devices (ECD) came into my office when I had just become an energy aide to Senator Jacob Javits (NY) in the first few lurching weeks of the first oil embargo. Stan, accompanied by his wife Rose, also a scientist as well as a co-founder of his company, proceeded to tell me the benefits of solar photovoltaics and their research in thin film flexible non-glass PV, solar-hydrogen generation and fuel cells, and advanced batteries. Stan and Rose founded ECD in 1967 – six years before the oil embargoes that first galvanized attention of energy by the American public and our policymakers. But Stan was warning of the environmental, security , and economic pitfalls of being opiated on petroleum and coal, decades before anyone else took it seriously. He built technology subsidiaries underneath ECD, Ovonics for batteries with a fa...

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