Penn lecture

For the past several years I’ve been giving a Fall lecture in one of Professor Noam Lior’s energy classes at Penn – and did so again this year in late October. Noam is a faculty member in the university’s Mechanical Engineering Department, and is a world-renowned expert in both energy and desalination – and for many, many years was editor of the technical journal Energy (as well as numerous others within the field). Given such expertise, it’s not surprising that he makes frequent trips to China – and this year I covered his class during one such visit (a week before I headed over to that country myself). Noam’s classes typically draw some very bright and inquisitive students, and this year’s group was certainly no exception!