In 2001, I rented a hangar at a small airfield on the outskirts of the small town of DeSoto, Iowa and began solar R&D efforts with the intention of discovering how solar energy might solve some energy-related problems.

Because tool and materials vendors seemed to prefer dealing with a business rather than an individual, I named my operation “DeSoto Solar” and the made-up name seemed to bestow more credibility than my own.

In 2011, the hangar was sold – and the new owner is understandably eager to occupy my shop's space. I am searching for a new space to rent, but it's unlikely to be in DeSoto – so it won't make much sense to continue using that name. If I'm not able to find an affordable new space, then there won't be any place for me to continue my R&D efforts, and it will become a non-issue.

I'm restructuring the web site to better serve my aims and to make it easier to maintain. The entire “DeSoto” directory structure is being moved into a more appropriately-named “Solar” directory structure and pages are being reformatted/rewritten in an effort to make them more informative. Once that is done, the old pages will be deleted.

I have no idea how many links there might be to the existing pages nor whether this will produce any noticeable inconvenience for anyone – but over a period of ten years only one other person has made a financial contribution and there thave been fewer than a dozen people who have been willing to help with the work, so it doesn't strike me as appropriate to worry about inconvenience to more than that dozen people.

All of the solar information can be accessed from either www.iedu.com or www.iedu.com/Solar/.