Ruben Bolling 🪲Dec 9

I wrote on Boing Boing about the physics professor who became Uruguay's energy secretary, and within five years had the country on 98% renewable energy.

NOT ONLY CAN IT BE DONE, IT WAS AN ECONOMIC BOON THE THE COUNTRY.

https://boingboing.net/2025/12/09/this-physics-professor-transformed-his-country-to-98-renewable-energy-in-five-years.html

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.

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Show threadJohn GriffithDec 9

@rubenbolling

Maybe having people grounded in physical reality making public policy is better than having so many lawyers in elected and appointed government positions?

Show threadJimmyDec 10
@johndgriffith @rubenbolling Making and enforcing the law is the government's business, it makes sense for people who know law to do that. I wouldn't hire an electrician to do my plumbing.
Show threadSimon Brooke

@jhavok @johndgriffith @rubenbolling Making the law, you have to understand the issues you're making law about. Interpreting the law (which is what lawyers do) you don't.

Lawyers are precisely the last people you should trust with making law, because they will only make bad law.

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Show threadJimmyDec 10
@simon_brooke @johndgriffith @rubenbolling Reflex cynicism is so easy. No doubt Marjory Taylor Greene has written some wonderful law.