Reply #12: You're entertaining. Since you feel his CV is lacking, perhaps you'd share yours?

[kristopher]

Some accomplishments:
• Author of Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (2007),
the first analysis of a transition to a U.S. economy based completely on renewable
energy, without any use of fossil fuels or nuclear power.

Principal author of
• the first overall study of the energy efficiency potential of the U.S. economy (1971)
• the first global analysis of energy and agriculture in the Third World (1975)
• the first independent assessment of radioactivity emissions from a nuclear weapons plant
(1989)

Co-author of
• the first technical assessment to show that a decoupling of economic growth from energy
growth over a period of decades could be accomplished in the United States (A Time to
Choose: America’s Energy Future, 1974). This report became the foundation of U.S.
energy policy during the Carter administration.
• the first audit of the cost of the U.S. nuclear weapons program (Atomic Audit, 1998)
• the first global assessment of the health and environmental effects of nuclear weapons
production (Nuclear Wastelands, 1995 and 2000), which was nominated for a Pulitzer
Prize by MIT Press. Also the principal editor of this book.

Education:
• Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1972, from the Department of Electrical
Engineering. Area of specialization: plasma physics as applied to controlled nuclear
fusion. Dissertation topic: multiple mirror confinement of plasmas. Minor fields of
doctoral study: statistics and physics.
• M.S. (Electrical Engineering) Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, 1967.
Thesis topic: electromagnetic wave propagation in the ionosphere.
• Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical), University of Bombay, Bombay, India, 1965.