Where We Are as an Energy-consuming Society

I may have mentioned that I’m on a personal quest to figure out the dynamics of our society’s migration from fossil fuels to renewables.  To that end, I conducted a 90-minute interview over lunch today with Wally Rippel, Cal Tech physics star of the 1960s, whose half-century career took him to places very few of us can imagine in terms of understanding the issues: technological, economic, and political, that form the underpinnings of where we are as an energy-consuming society. 

In preparation for my next book, I’m anxious to get as many different viewpoints as I can on our society’s apparent resistance to change with respect to energy, and this was a terrific experience.  More soon.