Media and Publications

Publications

• Scientific American Observations
  A Bold Proposal for Easing the Venezuela-Colombia Migrant Crisis: Building solar and wind power along the border would provide jobs, clean water and more productive farms
  By Luciano Castillo on February 17, 2020
• Future Energy, Water, Industry and Education Park (FEWIEP): A Secure and Permanent USMexico Border Solution
• An Energy-Water Corridor Along the US/Mexico Border: Changing the Conversation

Presentations

• Big Idea Challenge presentation (.pptx)

More News Coverage

• Purdue News Service
  https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2019/Q1/what-if-a-border-wall-could-pay-for-itself.html
  
• JC Online
  https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2019/03/15/purdue-researchers-propose-renewable-energy-park-replace-border-wall/3102581002/
  
• Washington Examiner
  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/1-954-mile-energy-park-would-pay-for-border-wall-create-economic-boom
  
• The Exponent
  https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_43c0e402-54ea-5e7a-a5b9-df386fe91688.html
  
• Electrek
  https://electrek.co/2019/03/08/us-mexico-energy-border/
  
• WBAA (Audio)
  https://www.wbaa.org/post/researchers-propose-alternative-trumps-border-wall#stream/0
  
• Big Think
  https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/build-the-energy-wall
  
• WIBC
  https://www.wibc.com/news/local-news/instead-border-wall-how-about-border-energy-park
  
• UpWorthy
  https://www.upworthy.com/over-two-dozen-scientists-have-proposed-a-wall-on-the-u-s-mexico-border-that-we-should-start-building-right-now
  
• Interesting Engineering
  https://interestingengineering.com/build-green-infrastructure-not-a-wall-says-leading-scientists
  
• Notre Dame News
  https://news.nd.edu/news/notre-dame-engineers-part-of-consortium-proposing-us-mexico-energy-water-corridor-in-lieu-of-border-wall/
  
• Cornell Chronicle
  http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/03/academics-propose-us-mexico-energy-water-corridor
  
• OilPrice.Com
  https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Solar-Energy/The-Energy-Solution-That-Could-End-The-Border-Wall-Debate.html
  
• Edgy
  https://edgy.app/energy-corridor-border
  
• Global Construction Review
  http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/news/instead-trumps-wall-build-massive-lucrative-indust/
  
• Sustainability Times
  https://www.sustainability-times.com/low-carbon-energy/u-s-team-wants-green-buffer-zone-instead-of-border-wall/
  
• World Tribune
  https://www.worldtribune.com/green-wall-plan-calls-for-chain-of-alternative-energy-zones-along-border/
  
• With a Side of Knowledge (Audio)
  https://player.fm/series/with-a-side-of-knowledge/bonus-episode-a-bold-proposal-for-the-us-mexico-border-luciano-castillo-purdue-university
  
• Indiana Economic Digest
  https://indianaeconomicdigest.com/MobileContent/Most-Recent/Henry/Article/Purdue-researcher-s-border-wall-proposal-focuses-on-renewable-energy-not-immigration-policy/31/186/95516
  
• Press-Republican
  https://www.pressrepublican.com/opinion/building-a-wall-of-energy/article_9ea810fd-5758-5492-9c19-1f384b683ed9.html
  
• Did You Know Facts
  https://didyouknowfacts.com/more-than-two-dozen-engineers-have-proposed-a-wall-on-the-u-s-mexico-border-that-they-want-built-immediately/