Welcome to Ken Clifton’s blog. If you are a student you will be most interested in the “teaching” category content. Please feel free to explore the “About” and “Resume/CV” links at top of this page. If you are interested in RECs please see the renewable energy credits link. The Salisbury Post did a front page story […]
On October 28th I received the gift of sight from a person who selflessly donated their eyes so that others might see. Kat and I are gearing up for the next transplant surgery. We are very thankful for the prayers of so many. A simple “thank you” is just not enough for the many expressions of thoughtfulness made in so many different ways during this difficult time.
The last few months have been very difficult. I have struggled from one day to the next in a good bit of “extreme” pain as my vision is slowly taken away by Fuch’s Corneal Dystrophy. Much of my limited computer time is done with the help of a magnifying glass or the accessibility tools. Last week I turned over all my Fall classes at RCCC to other professors.
I released a new plug-in for the very popular WordPress blogging and CMS system ! UPDATED: 11/24/2011 new version 3.01, features noted below. The plug-in retrieves solar production from the outstanding Enphase solar microinverter system. Features include: An Administration page to save the API key used to retrieve solar production, near real-time. A side-bar widget […]
Graphs and comments on the time to charge an all-electric Nissan Leaf. Graphs include total power produced by solar and total consumption by the home.
The first all electric production car in Rowan County for a regular family of four. The first charge was all powered by solar.
Giving another talk about my process of using solar energy to run our home at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on October 13, 2011 at 7PM in Salisbury NC. Download the presentation here.
Big News on October 11, 2011! We are proud to be a part of Duke Energy’s Electric Vehicle (EV) pilot project. I applied to the pilot program after reading about it in an email from Duke’s PEV newsletter that I subscribed to at the Nissan Leaf event at Concord Mills. After a site assessment and […]
I will be teaching two introductory solar energy classes in August, 2011 at the RCCC North Campus in Salisbury, NC. Each class is 2 hours long. To register for any of the following classes, please call continuing education registration at 704-216-3512 or 704-216-RCCC (7222) to register over the phone. Class information follows: Basics of Solar Electric […]
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