From engineer to activist: A renewables industry is born

摘要

My own interest in alternative technology sprang from disillusionment with the engineering education I'd received at QUT in the early 1970s. It was a time for challenging the establishment, but engineering seemed all about fostering the status quo. I worked as assistant to the maintenance engineer in a coal-fired power station near Ipswich, and also down Mt Isa Mines. I saw and smelled the pollution, and I wasn't impressed.