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Nathan S. Allen - Sustainable R&D, Biosphere 2 / nallen@b2science.org

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    I currently coordinate the Biosphere 2 Model City research program utilizing the B2 campus as a test bed for research and development of green technology integration including renewable energy, smart grid, rainwater and grey water systems, building management, and cyber security systems. My interests include how systems thinking and quality management strategies support innovation and apply to mitigation and adaptation responses to climate change. My research focuses on the performance of novel solar PV installation methods; the ability of forecasting to reduce costs of variable energy generated by renewables; the environmental impacts of large-scale solar development; and the water energy nexus. I also manage corporate partnerships within the solar PV, rainwater catchment, water and electric utilities, infrastructure monitoring and control, and data analytics industries. I collaborate with academics from multiple universities in physics, optics, architecture, systems and industrial engineering, electrical and power engineering, education, political science, economics, and earth, environmental and ecological sciences. Contact me: nallen@b2science.org / 520.603.3836

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RadioLab - Cities

Worthwhile program on urban intelligence:

Cityscape

“There’s no scientific metric for measuring a city’s personality. But step out on the sidewalk, and you can see and feel it. Two physicists explain one tidy mathematical formula that they believe holds the key to what drives a city. Yet math can’t explain most of the human-scale details that make urban life unique. So we head out in search of what the numbers miss, and meet a reluctant city dweller, a man who’s walked 700 feet below Manhattan, and a once-thriving community that’s slipping away.”

November 26, 2012
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