In fall 2024, I attended Pepperdine's inaugural Energy Forum, held over three sessions in November at Pepperdine's Hauteville campus in Switzerland's Vaud canton. I was the sole student participant across the sessions, representing my university, though I remain uncertain as to how I came to be invited. My French professor, Dr. Annalisa Izzo, had recently covered renewable energy vocabulary in class, which proved timely, as the forum was conducted entirely in French, aside fr