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https://www.npr.org/2023/10/06/1197954251/uruguay-green-energy-carbon-emissions-climate-change>
'Back in 2007, Uruguay had a massive problem with no obvious fix. The economy
of this country of 3.5 million people was growing, but there wasn't enough
energy to power all that growth. There was energy rationing, and people's power
bills kept going up.
"It was difficult for us to cope," Ramón Méndez Galain remembers. "It was
difficult to get electricity. For some time, we were beginning to have
blackouts."
Méndez Galain had trained as a particle physicist. "When you are trained as a
scientist," he says, "you are trained to see an unsolved problem, and [to try]
to find an explanation and a solution. So I used, if you wish, my scientific
skills I had developed in order to face this difficulty with the same
strategy."
He started researching different potential paths for Uruguay's energy future
and reaching out to experts he knew around the world. Ultimately, he wrote up
an entire plan for how Uruguay could change its energy mix so that it relied
almost entirely on renewable energy. There would be less pollution, it would be
better for the climate, and, he thought, in the long run, it would be the most
economical choice Uruguay could make.
And then one day, Méndez Galain received a phone call in his office.
"He said, 'Oh, hi Ramón," Méndez Galain recalls. "I've been reading what you
said. I'm talking with the president, and we wanted you to implement that
strategy.'"
The president of Uruguay had seen Méndez Galain's plan and was now inviting him
to become Uruguay's new national director of energy. Méndez Galain accepted.'
Via
What Could Go Right? November 2, 2023:
https://theprogressnetwork.org/same-sex-marriage-world/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
