Clean Energy's Bad Ideas
2GreenEnergy reader Rebecca asks:
When you’re approached by budding inventors or experienced ones, how do you manage to filter out those who are true and honest from those who are a sham?
Good question. It’s not something that can be done with absolute certainty, but I like to think I’m reasonably adept at it.
I was a math and science guy back in the day; I majored in physics in college; of course, that was when we still believed the Earth was the center of the universe. My first job other than manual labor (mostly caddying, golf course maintenance and painting houses up until that point) was tutoring freshman calculus and physics to undergraduates when I was in graduate school. I made $6 an hour — more than twice the minimum wage at the time — an utter fortune! (more…)