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NREL: Giving Kids Building Blocks to Envision Solar Future

As part of the InSPIRE Project, NREL Senior Analyst helped dream up a creative way to educate about energy, water, and food.

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By: Anthony Locicero

Copy editor, New York Post

In 2020, Rob Davis got Jordan Macknick hooked on the idea of a LEGO solar farm.   Davis is the director of the Center for Pollinators in Energy at Minnesota-based Fresh Energy.    Macknick is a senior analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).    Together, they co-chair the research and outreach committee for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovative Site Preparation and Impact Reductions on the Environment (InSPIRE) project.   The InSPIRE project has 30 s...

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