Dr. Joseph H. Simmons

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  Joseph Simmons, Ph.D., Director, Solar Energy Programs, University of Arizona

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  Joe Simmons, Head of Materials Science and Engineering, UA
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  Joseph H. Simmons is Department Head of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Arizona and the co-director of its newly-formed Arizona Research Institute for Solar Energy.Dr. Simmons also holds a Visiting Professorship from the University of Rennes, France.Past positions include: Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and Department of Physics at the University of Florida (16 years), Professor in the Department of Physics at the Catholic University of America (10 years), Senior Research Physicist at the National Bureau of Standards (NIST) (8 years) and at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (4 years).Simmons graduated with a BS in Physics (University of Maryland, 1962), an MS in Physics (John Carroll University, 1966) and a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics (Catholic University, 1969).His studies have spanned numerous topics in optical properties of materials, condensed matter physics, spectroscopy, glass science and computational modeling.He is the author of over 110 refereed journal articles, 13 US patents, 4 book chapters, editor of 2 books and co-author of a text and reference book, "Optical Materials" (Acad. Press, 1999).Simmons is the Senior Editor of the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids (since 1998), having served as Regional Editor and as member of the Editorial Advisory Board for 5 prior years.Simmons is a Member of the Steering Committee of the International Congress on Glass, Fellow and former Trustee of the American Ceramic Society and past chair of its Glass and Optical Materials Division.

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  Steve Farley, University of Arizona professor Joe Simmons and a representative from Trico.

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  Joseph H. Simmons and Ardeth M. Barnhart
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  Simmons is head and professor of materials science and engineering and director of the Arizona Research Institute for Solar Energy (AzRISE) at the University of Arizona.

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  It's feasible, said Joseph Simmons, co-director of the Arizona Research Institute for Solar Energy at the University of Arizona."We may be too late to avoid the runaway carbon dioxide problem," said Simmons, "but certainly we can develop these technologies before we start running out of fossil fuel."
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  "Roger is right about that," said Simmons, but he doubts that the country is ready to sacrifice the areas needed to build the lakes and route the power lines.
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  Simmons, whose own research involves finding ways to improve the efficiency of more affordable, thin-film photovoltaics, said he envisions a variety of solutions to the solar puzzle and they don't all involve science.Simmons and others plan to research a bond program developed in Berkeley, Calif., that pays the full cost of solar-electric generating systems for homes, and collects it back in yearly tax assessments for more than 20 years.That has the potential to accelerate rooftop solar, Simmons said.The Arizona Research Institute for Solar Energy will coordinate research projects, seed "revolutionary ideas" and be an educational resource for policymakers and the community, he said.

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  Extension of the tax credit was "critical" for solar research and development, Joseph Simmons, co-director of the Arizona Research Institute for Solar Energy, said in an e-mail."The kind of capital it will bring to the industry from private sources will be the sufficient boost that the technology needs to become competitive.It's not just the tax savings, but the perception to investors that solar energy will be a great investment," Simmons wrote.

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  Partly because solar equipment is still expensive upfront, it will be hard to meet the state's requirement that utilities supply 15 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2025, says the institute's chief, Joseph Simmons.
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  Now, they're designed to handle up to 10 percent shifts in demand, but if more than 10 percent of customers install solar equipment, utilities will be in trouble, Simmons says. • Homeowners with solar panels need storage systems for cloudy days, even though they usually generate more electricity than they need during sunny times, says Simmons, calling that a "key flaw in the system."

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  The panels have an efficiency of about 16 to 18 percent, greater than silicon, said Joseph Simmons, director of the University of Arizona's Arizona Research Institute for Solar Energy.

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  "This is going to be a tremendous boost not just to Tucson but to the whole state of Arizona," said AzRISE co-director Joe Simmons, who is also head of the UA materials science and engineering department. AzRISE, launched last summer, will find ways to make solar energy cheaper - and more attractive to consumers, he said. Electricity produced by photovoltaic solar panels remains more costly than power from conventional coal- and gas-fired power plants, he said. Arizona's extensive sunshine makes it a natural for exploiting clean solar energy, he said. "The promise is fantastic.We just have to get the economics down," Simmons said."We can improve efficiency and reduce costs with new techniques for processing the materials for making solar devices. "Our goal is to increase solar efficiency by two and reduce the price by two," Simmons said."Then everyone would adopt it in a minute, and the planet would benefit." Creating a center for excellence such as AzRISE will leverage solar expertise from UA and other areas to move solar ahead, he said. "We have a lot of intellectual capital at UA.There are a lot of ideas kicking around at the university," he said.About 60 UA faculty members have expressed interest in working on AzRISE solar-related programs. Fostering collaboration among UA researchers and others from around the state could see Arizona - long touted as boasting huge solar resources - approach its solar potential, he said. "Solar energy has been talked about for an eternity.To make a really big impact in the state, we're going to need to use all the intellectual capital in all the state," he said.
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  One project under consideration involves developing plans for a concentrating solar facility that would use the sun's energy to produce electricity and remove salt from seawater making it safe for drinking, Simmons said. The project would use shiny parabolic troughs to heat water in a system of tubes. The heat distills the salt out of the water, and the hot water is used to run turbines that produce electricity, he said. Such a plant in the Gulf of Mexico could supply Arizona and Mexico with clean power and clean water, he said. He said he expects a scale engineering model of the system could be ready to test in two years and a commercial plant could be operational in five years, pending funding of an estimated $10 million to $20 million. "Since desalination is a big issue worldwide we think there is a good chance of finding investment to push the research," he said.

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  Craig Cornelius, Craig Smith, Joseph Strakey, Juan Torres and Joe Simmons
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  Joseph Simmons, Ph.D., Director, Solar Energy Programs, University of Arizona

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