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When I was an early stage doctoral student, our professor asked each of us to turn to someone in the room and explain our upcoming dissertation idea. Whoa! That was tough, as our colleagues didn’t necessarily share our disciplinary background knowledge nor the jargon that we took for granted in our field. We soon realized that we needed to simplify and clarify our language so that our message would be clear and digestible.

Such a linear model of communication, in which information flows one way from sender to receiver, is the method that most renewable energy information is disseminated. Experts in the clean energy field know an enormous amount about energy production, efficiency, power, reliability, cost-of-investment, abundance, scalability, competitive supply chains — and so much more. And they’re happy to tell us all they know!

“One to an undefined many communication” by Wesley Fryer is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.