<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; ">The MIT Energy Initiative, together with the Campus Energy Task Force, is proud to announce a special seminar this coming <b>Monday, October 19 </b>at <b>4:00. </b>We hope to see you there!</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><br></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b>Solar Thermal Technology - Present Usage, Future Possibilities, and Best Practices</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><br></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b>Christian Holter</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><br></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1F497D"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; ">Monday, October 19</span></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><br></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><b>4:00</b> <b>PM</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><i>Refreshments to follow</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><br></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><b>Room 32-141</b></span></font></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; ">32 Vassar Street</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b>Abstract</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </span></font></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Solar thermal technology is already widely spread with a total nominal power of 147 GW installed by end of 2007. Most of today’s capacity is used for preparing hot water, but the potential for integration in industrial process heat, space and district heating and solar cooling is a manifold and today just slightly touched by a few pilot projects.</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">The presentation will start summarizing today’s distribution and usage of solar thermal technology compared to other renewables worldwide. After discussing the possible contribution to the worldwide energy supply, I will highlight best practice examples, </span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">including a 10,000 ft2 plant proposed for MIT's NW 35. </span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">If meteorological situation allows, we can see the operation of plants with a live feed.</span></font></span></span></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b>About the Speaker</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Dr. Christian Holter is Managing Director of S.O.L.I.D. GmbH of Graz, Austria </span></font><a href="http://www.solid.at/" style="text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.solid.at</font></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> and operating in Phoenix AZ as SolidUSA, Inc. </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.solidsolar.com/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.solidsolar.com</font></span></font></a>. SOLID specializes in large scale solar thermal plants with installations in 20 countries. Applications cover a wide range from domestic hot water to space heating, district heating, industrial process heat and solar cooling.</span></font></div></body></html>