Influential parties at Georgetown University have been committing this serious fraud during the tours of this campus for twenty years insisting the 30,000 SF BI-PV solar roof on the Intercultural Center does not work and that they had to paint it over because when it generated electricity allegedly this increased its reflectivity and would make planes crash. It took one phone call to Victor Prodbeilsky, Director of Facilities Maintenance to receive substantial data substantiating that the solar BI-PV system works fine and has generated an average of one Megawatt hour daily since 1984 being approximately $45,000 of electricity a year. Since 1994 when I discovered the 30,000 SF BI-PV roof, I have tried to get this building in the news and to clarify this intentional and malicious fraud by the Georgetown University community. Charlotte Nichols a staff writer at The HOYA News wrote an article in 2000 entitled ：1980s Energy Crisis Inspired ICC・s Solar Panels Official Confirm Panels・ Productivity・ indicating that the fraudulent reports were rumors and apologized to the public. ：Kathleen Hosie (SFS ・01) is just one student misinformed about the ICC panels.

：The solar panels are completely impractical because they can・t even be used with the airplanes flying overhead,； she said.

Students such as Hosie believe the panels were painted over because they blinded pilots by reflecting sunlight upwards like a mirror as planes descend into Ronald Reagan National Airport. ：. . . there is no truth to that whatsoever. They・ve never been painted over and they・re still working just as much today. Not only are the panels still in commission, they operate at an impressive level. ICC・s 3,318 square meters of active area remains the largest single installation solar panel in the world, offsetting about $45,000 in electrical bills annually.；

The campus architect attempted to downplay the fraud insisting that a solar array must have a large wide space to successfully offset electricity production. He exaggerated the $6 million cost of the solar system claiming it cost the government $10 million to install it. His explanation was weak and misleading. ：

Any building housing solar panels must be unique in itself, such as the four-tired ICC, and Brangman does not foresee any new campus constructions able to accommodate another solar powered endeavor. ：In producing electricity, bigger is better, so to speak. If you look at the size of our planned buildings, more will be long and narrow, not wide like the ICC,； Brangman said.

Georgetown University is President Clinton・s alma mater and while he and Senator Hillary Clinton had a solar photovoltaic field system spread about the White House lawn to light their Christmas Tree, there was no mention in the related news story about the 30,000 SF BI-PV roof on the Intercultural Center despite my numerous phone calls, letters, visits and e-mails to the White House concerning this matter. The Distinguished Madeline Albright has an office in the Intercultural Center, however I have never heard her mention it is an example of a proven peace-evolving technology.

Obviously, Mr. Brangman is not the architect that consulted with President Bush in 2002 to install three solar systems on the White House for security reasons. Stephen Strong is featured in and wrote the front page article for the SEPA Record Fall 2002 edition published by the Solar Electric Power Association entitled ：The Integration of Solar Electric Into Buildings Solar Electric at the White House and Around the World；.

Stephen Strong worked on oil derricks in Alaska as a young architect student and came back determined to assist in furthering alternatives to fossil fuel domination in the energy industry. There has also been no mainstream media regarding these solar systems even though extensive money has been used to discuss Energy Crisis 2000, 9|11, the collapse of the Enron Corporation and to capture the brutality and ongoing war in Afghanistan and Iraq in the name of oil deployment.

An advertising campaign for British Petroleum claims they are allegedly ．Beyond Petroleum・. There has been no mainstream news about the news article in 2000 clarifying the fraud to assure anyone who visited Georgetown University and was fed this propaganda during tours is provided the truth of the matter. Georgetown University should be charged with malicious negligence as well as illegal market manipulations and related insider trading. They should be forced to pay for the publication of a public notice of apology to the people of this nation and around the world to assure that anyone told this propaganda has ready access to the truth in as short a time as possible. The mainstream media is partly to blame for this long-term effects of this fraud due to their refusal to cover the truth of the matter. The media need to be held accountable for allowing this propaganda to continue unchecked for such a long time. I have contacted every major newspaper and television station in the nation including the Investors Business Daily, the Wall Street Journal, NBC, ABC, ABC and CNN since 1996. Their refusal to investigate and cover this far-reaching fraud is clearly negligence on the part of the media as well as Georgetown University. Let us make an example of them using Martha Stewart's conviction as a guide to assure this type of insider manipulation and traking with oppression of important information by Georgetown University and the press is discouraged.

Some magic force from outer space is not going to enforce the law and neither will regulators unless consumers make a formal letter-writing campaign with an official docket contesting this fraud and related abuses. Georgetown University has illegally planted trees to intentionally interfere with the solar system output and related data where it is a technology demonstration project funded by tax-payer money. The mainstream media might be allowed to reduce their liability by providing a mandate that states that a percentage of their news about the energy industry must include unknown projects, technologies and leaders in renewable energy as well as other types of important and influential stories regarding the deployment of renewable energy technologies. While the media talks about different renewable energy technologies and does an occasional expose on cynical leaders like the stand-alone pioneer Emory Lovins many alleged green leaders are paid substantial amounts to speak at conferences to create a sense of futility in consumers and industry convincing the audience they have no power to influence or redirect the massive vacuum of energy commerce into renewable energy for the mainstream consumer and urban uses.

Non-profit organizations like the National Resources Defense Counsel are being paid $100 to $350 an hour in energy agency proceedings under the hardship compensation statutes to water down or silence consumer protests. Neighborhood Energy Watch Solution Groups or N.E.W.S. Groups based on the model of Neighborhood Crime Watch Groups allows consumers to directly monitor and intervene in energy agency proceedings themselves. Participation in N.E.W.S. Groups will benefit consumers by teaching them how energy agency proceedings presently manage the energy industry, and it naturally empower numerous people as electricity consumers because they will be interconnected with thousands of other N.E.W.S. Groups.

Where there is a question about me and my intentions join together with your neighbors and invite me to hold a N.E.W.S. Group seminar when I come through your area during the Journey by Horseback for Peace & Photovoltaics. The only way to find out if such groups will actually work to transform the energy industry is to try it. I dare communities to form their own N.E.W.S. Groups and put it to the test this Spring where PEPCO is raising their electric rates 16%. Why are they doing this? What can you do about it? You have a right to know. You can more effectively question this authority, together in N.E.W.S. Groups!

My suggestion is to make the first thing you do to investigate the 16% rate increase by PEPCO the task of forming your very own N.E.W.S Group so you can investigate within the safety of a group together instead of as fragmented individuals that are far easier to dissuade, intimidate and discredit by the energy agency staff and their cohorts in the utility and fossil fuel market. If your neighbors aren・t interested, form an on- line neighborhood of friends and interested associates. Consensus rules in the Rulemaking. Consumer consensus is the goal of Neighborhood Energy Watch Solution Groups. One goal of the Journey by Horseback for Peace & Photovoltaics is to establish 101 Charter N.E.W.S. Groups.

Don・t wait until disaster or N.E.W.S. Groupsa are proven to join, make this experiment a sure bet with your expertise and determination. Create a part of history, today. Forming a N.E.W.S. Group is as easy as forming a Neighborhood Crime Watch Group and it takes about the same amount of time to responsibly participate. Just like the Crime Watch Groups it will take less time to function successfully after a Group has been in place for awhile. There is a learning curve where you will be orientating yourself and others about energy agency proceedings and how your N.E.W.S. Groups will function to make a difference. The primary difference is that instead of watching for crime in the neighborhood, you will watch for crime and protect consumer interests in energy agency proceedings. You may be surprised how obvious the crime is within written comments of these proceedings.

Much of the crime will be reduced simply by increasing consumer monitoring of these proceedings that have been historically dominated by utilities, government staff and energy cartels focused primarily on fossil, nuclear and large hydro generation which presently generate 99.5% of the electricity consumed in the United States, today. That number has only decreased 0.1% since Earth Day began in 1970. Coal consumption has doubled during the thirty years of Earth Day. While many consumers may feel they are not welcome in energy agency proceedings, the truth is that many people in the industry are very concerned about the lack of responsible transformation in the industry and have no clue how to initiate such changes. A few will resist this important infusion of influence, but most will welcome responsible consumer intervention. It is not only a national problem, it is an international crisis of substantial proportion. Where you may think that Americans are the only one・s being lauded as irresponsible and lazy, the same technique is being used in countries all over the world by some who feel that it somehow provides them control over the industry. It is malicious propaganda and it serves only to increase dysfunction, violence, war and crime in the world.