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Richard Swanson is an American electrical engineer and businessman, retired founder of SunPower, a solar photovoltaic cell manufacturer. He is credited for creating Swanson's law, an observation that solar cell prices decline by 20% for every doubling of solar panel industry capacity.
Richard Swanson (May 19, 1970 – May 14, 2013) was an American man who tried to dribble a soccer ball from the U.S. city of Seattle, Washington, to São Paulo, Brazil. On May 14, 2013, he died after being hit by a pickup truck alongside U.S. Route 101 just outside Lincoln City, Oregon , United States, 270 miles into his planned journey of roughly 10,000 miles.
Jun 10, 2013 · Richard Swanson was a 42-year-old graphic designer who dribbled a soccer ball from Seattle to Rio de Janeiro in 2014, raising awareness for the One World Futbol Project. He was killed by a truck 250 miles into his trip, but his friends and strangers honored his dream and legacy.
SunPower is a solar technology company that has been developing record-breaking solar cells since the 1970s. The web page does not mention Richard Swanson, the inventor of the concentrator photovoltaic cell and co-founder of SunPower.
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SunPower was founded on April 24, 1985, by Richard Swanson, who was a Stanford University professor focused on electrical engineering. Swanson studied solar power efficiency in the Stanford Electronics Laboratory with funding from research grants.: 468 After breaking a record for solar power efficiency in lab conditions, he took a sabbatical to sta...
SunPower founder Richard Swanson's former classmate, T.J. Rodgers, was the CEO of Cypress Semiconductor and took an interest in investing in the company. At first, the Cypress board wasn't willing to invest, so Rodgers invested $750,000 of his own money. Starting with an investment of $8 million, Cypress eventually invested about $150 million, acqu...
In 2019, SunPower announced it was going to spin-off its manufacturing division into a separate business in Singapore named Maxeon Solar Technologies. As part of the deal, Tianjin Zhonghuan Semiconductor Co invested $298 million for a 29% interest in Maxeon. The remaining SunPower business became focused on services, installation, batteries, and ot...
SunPower is an American solar energy company founded in 1985 by Richard Swanson, a Stanford professor. Learn about its history, products, acquisitions, and spin-offs from this Wikipedia article.
Richard Swanson is a renowned solar cell researcher and entrepreneur who founded SunPower Corporation in 1991. He received several awards and honors for his contributions to the photovoltaic field, including the IEEE Jin-ichi Nishizawa Medal and the Karl Boer Solar Energy Medal of Merit.
SunPower founder Richard Swanson at the Nov. 14, 2011, Energy Seminar answers a question on how to deal with energy literacy in the U.S. (The full video of S...
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