Last year, watching the evolving energy marketplace in the U.S. and Mexico and the huge inroads solar PV and wind are capable of making, it was both exhilarating and a bit distressing. Exhilarating due to the huge strides being made in lowering costs of renewable energy. Distressing (selfishly) in that my being a mechanical/process engineer, there is not a ton of technical scope in those particular types of projects for my specific skill set; doesn’t take a guy like me to set up a PV panel and plug in, if that is the way the industry is headed. So it forces us to review what skills should be essential for a wide variety of energy generation technologies, or even on the demand side.
Perhaps some of you have similar concerns – are the talents you are acquiring now going to be needed in the energy landscapes of tomorrow?
As one fragmentary example of how desperately the wide range of your talents are needed now, and likely for all the years of your upcoming career, you’d have to first read this linked post about horror and the author H.P. Lovecraft.
If some fragment of sanity remains after reading that, we can discuss further.
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