How can engineers cooperate to advance new energy technologies?

By actively showing ways to create an active lessening of demands on energy at all levels of our 6+ billion comunity:

How about starting this 'WASTE NOT WANT NOT' group forthwith

OK!

I need a note to leave home tho'.

Cheers,

S

Don't forget that due to that free and global economy you've mentioned, the problem isn't the engineers division but rather the companies/corporations division and the governments division. Most engineers work for one of them who define the goals to achieve. Engineers by ourselves can contribute, but we haven't the power...

Can't engineers rise to the executive levels? I feared that this would be the response. I know from experience that the bean counters have too much power sometimes. Any manufacturing corporation that does not listen to its engineers needs a new CEO and board of directors. I hope this is not a universal problem.

Of course they (we) can!!! At least I don't know it would violate any physical law.

The problem as I think is that many companies are ruled by economists and/or lawyers which just look for immediate economic results, even if it could be against the own company interests in a long term basis. (They think when this happen they would be on some other company making the same things)

Is any of them hearing?

Because of my job I've been last 35 years in contact with many companies from big multinational ones to medium size workshops all around the world (well I miss Australia) and I've see many similarities.

I am an engineer and got to top CEO in the world in a 10 Billion £/year corp. Got some bad news. It doesn't matter how good you are at your job it's all down to politics at the end of the day.

I can believe it. A prominent psychologist has written some good books on "Emotional Intelligence" being more important ,than intellectual muscle, for success. My brother never got a BA, and has a great personality. He has had executive positions, and made more money than me, even though I have a Masters. I do well, but am not the gregarious type. He is.

Another example is our presidential candidate John Mccain. He was low ranking in his military academy, and may now be president. Kennedy was only average in university. Truman was a haberdasher.

My goal is to encourage people, of all types, to help solve problems in new and innovative ways.

We need more people getting general engineering educations, universities with engineering departments are too rare. General engineering departments should be as common as English or Chemistry departments at colleges and universities.

Universities are doing their best to put out team players that follow orders but do not have initiative, too many people study engineering to land a job, not because they have dreams of making something.

Actually, I believe the fault, if you will, is misplaced. I don't think engineers have a particular problem co-operating with each other either independently or as a group. The major hurdle I see in all five of your scenarios is the constant scrutiny and interference by the conservationists of many variants, each having their own agenda. Some of your examples have merit, but you would get so much resistance from people concerned about global warming, spotted owls (there I go again), the environment, ad infinitum, that completion of a project would take many years and much money to accomplish. It would be nearly prohibitive in that environment. Dare to dream!!

Better to light a bonfire than curse the darkness.