Klinkman Solar Design entered the Helsinki Energy Challenge. We probably missed the finals because we had assembled a terrible team and teamwork counted for 30% of their Challenge’s grading system, but then the contest organizers wrote that they were overjoyed with all of the brand new renewable energy technologies that they saw. Then they mentioned the new technologies that didn’t make the finals. Their press release’s first listing, “new approaches to heat storage and transfer,” fits our entry to a tee. We promised them low cost, storable solar heat delivered at any needed temperature. I assume that the Challenge’s jury liked our new technologies. If you want to see the press release, go to: energychallenge.hel.fi/news/press-release-ten-european-teams-selected-hundreds-proposals-advance-final-phase-helsinki We’ll all see the real scores next March. If in fact the Helsinki contest jury has given my solar heating proposal the top technology rating in the world, perhaps you should ask me to speak at NESEA. That’s not all. The Greene School in West Greenwich, RI has a solar greenhouse. It’s off-grid. It uses zero fuel, as in, no compost and no firewood, just solar. It puts more than 100% of weak winter sun onto the crops for healthy-looking plants. It’s the most productive greenhouse per square foot of floor space in the world. It stays 25 degrees F. above the weekly outside temperature with only R-10 insulation - if someone wants to grow tropical plants in winter we could over-insulate to 50 degrees F. above the weekly outside temperature. We have never had frost and this is the greenhouse’s third winter. We haven’t yet tried rooting multi-year tomato plants into the undisturbed topsoil under the greenhouse, but we will try it after the covid is gone. The greenhouse is remarkably inexpensive and so far it is on a track to be long-lived because it has great humidity control. We use ordinary window glass, not oil-based plastic sheeting, not Kalwall. I’m 67 years old and if I can get up on a ladder to help build it, you probably can too. If somebody wishes to be right at the cutting edge of agriculture and literally a light unto your neighbors, they should try building one of these greenhouses. Pictures are at klinkmansolar.com/greenhouses.htm