ABSTRACT
Ricardo Melchior carried out his studies of industrial engineering
in the University of Navarra, Spain, and later moved to Germany
for a period of three years motivated by a scholarship awarded by
the German government to study financial engineering at Aachen
University (RWTH), where he also started his PhD in industrial
engineering. During this period, Mr. Melchior came into contact with
researchers and scientists who studied the use of renewable energy
as an alternative to fossil fuels as a result of the fourth Arab-Israeli
war of 1973, also known as the Yom Kippur War, which caused an
energy crisis that quadrupled oil prices.
