This physics professor transformed his country to 98% renewable energy in five years – Boing Boing

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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.

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