This physics professor transformed his country to 98% renewable energy in five years
Ramón Méndez Galain was a Urguayan theoretical physics professor studying the Big Bang when the president of Uruguay shocked him with a phone call in 2008 asking him to be the country’s energy secretary. Uruguay’s economy was being crippled by climbing oil and gas prices.
Five years later, Uruguay had transformed itself into…
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