Series 3, Issue 4
The week of February 25, 2019
Energy Thought-leaders
The week of February 25, 2019
Energy Thought-leaders
There are more than eleven million inspired professionals working to secure a sustainable energy future - in science and engineering, industry and academia, multi-national corporations and small business, manufacturing, investments, policy-making….
The thought-leaders celebrated in this issue of Energy Today are representative of the talents, capital and resources of this impressive professional audience.
The thought-leaders celebrated in this issue of Energy Today are representative of the talents, capital and resources of this impressive professional audience.
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George Mitchell
He frac'ed until it paid off The "father" of frac'ing was also a proponent of its strict regulation. Mr. Mitchell was born in Galveston, Texas, in 1919, the son of Greek immigrants. He died there in July 2013 at age 94, a billionaire. But the years in between -- oh what a life! See also: 95 and Still King |
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Regina Mayor
Leading From the Front Regina Mayor is a pillar of knowledge, experience and strength. A leading consultant for a prestigious firm, Mayor works with companies of all sizes on a wide variety of complex projects. As a thought-leader, she is a beacon for those in need of guidance. As a woman in a sector with many men, Mayor is an inspiration. But Regina Mayor’s path to the front was circuitous, to say the least. See also: Women, Energy and Economic Empowerment |
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Jessica Matthews
CEO Rising “My name is Jessica O. Matthews, and I am the founder and CEO of Uncharted Power.... I am a mashup of Bill Nye the Science Guy and Beyoncé." - Matthews’ opening line at Disney Demo Day See also: Could clean energy spark a mineral boom? |
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Dan Kammen
Adventures in CleanTech Like the intrepid fictional professor Indiana Jones, Daniel Kammen cuts a swashbuckling figure. As a trained pilot, he once flew medical supplies to remote areas of Kenya, ferrying patients back to Nairobi for treatment. Today, the 55-year-old globe-trotting energy and climate scientist and environmental policy wonk straddles two different yet distinguished worlds. See also: Patenting Invention |
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Nicole Poindexter
Energy Is Life! Nicole Poindexter was an early employee of OPower, a software company that provides utilities and their customers with better information about energy usage. After the company’s IPO in 2014, Poindexter took a step back to consider what she wanted to do next. She quickly realized that her real interest was in creating “electrical grids that leveraged 100 percent renewable energy.” And then she discovered electricity poverty and decided to do something about it. See also: Denial |
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William S. Jevons
The Coal Question and the Efficiency Dilemma Energy efficiency has been called “the fifth fuel” (after coal, petroleum, nuclear power, and renewables); it is seen as a cost-free tool for accelerating the transition to a green-energy economy. But the issue is less straightforward than it seems. In 1865, William Stanley Jevons published “The Coal Question,” in which he argued that increased “economy” in the use of coal — what we refer to today as energy efficiency - is a false premise. He concluded: “It is wholly a confusion of ideas to suppose that the economical use of fuel is equivalent to a diminished consumption. The very contrary is the truth.” |
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