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

Tuesday December 9, 2025. 08:20 PM , from BoingBoing
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. — Read the rest
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