Energy in Motion – interpersonally and politically As a social scientist who has spent decades exploring multi-layered interpersonal nuances, and, as a technical salesperson who once designed hundreds of photovoltaic (solar) arrays and installed a few, I have a few things to say about Power. But at its most basic, Power is Energy in motion. Interpersonal power, political power, technical power, it is all energy in motion. Technically power is understood as potential for work over a specific period of time, but there is motion in an idle kilowatt or horsepower at rest. The interpersonal understanding of power is often understood as influence over time and, unlike technical power, gets quite convoluted when considered alongside myriad points along socialized identities such as education, ability, race, gender, and class. This week I read a peace piece (which is the only form of news I will read) by Roya Shariat, “You can’t say that, I’m Iranian” in which personal experience of calling out a general in the U.S. military for saying that a regime change in Iran was his New Year’s resolution, and important reflections about the current power vacuum in Iran created by the murder of supreme leader Ali Khamenei, are