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Thomas Manuel Ortiz is the author of Why We Struggle to Go Green: https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781965766286/why-we-struggle-to-go-green/. He holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University and an M.B.A. from Texas A&M University.

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Honored to be on the shelves at the University of Toronto. I grew up just south of the Canadian border and I appreciate our peaceful and friendly neighbor. https://lnkd.in/ePCWBZUd | Thomas Manuel O... Honored to be on the shelves at the University of Toronto. I grew up just south of the Canadian border and I appreciate our peaceful and friendly neighbor. https://lnkd.in/ePCWBZUd

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This Is Not What We Meant By Trying To Cool The Planet! What next? A constellation of barbeque satellites in medium-rare orbit around the sun?

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01.03.2026 03:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In Case You Missed It: Writing On The Air My September 22 interview with Mindy Reed on KOOP 91.7 FM is available here

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27.02.2026 17:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Brief Review: The Ministry For The Future An engaging piece of science-finance-fiction sprinkled with bits of philosophy

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27.02.2026 17:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Ca(t)st of Thousands The increasing public economic cost of being a dork

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Not the End of the World The Senate's vote to end California's emissions waiver may create an opportunity for e-fuels

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27.02.2026 17:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Elvis Was Right A Little Less (Carbon) Conversation, Please

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27.02.2026 17:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Tale of Two Subways On the road to Hell...Mind the Gap!

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27.02.2026 17:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Stain-Resistant Carpets Are Forever Sorry, 007: No license to kill this time around

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27.02.2026 17:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Warmer Air, More Water We can't predict floods with pinpoint accuracy, but we should expect more of them

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27.02.2026 17:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Going Overboard on Entertainment Why is cruise overindulgence so prevalent?

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27.02.2026 17:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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All Our Electrons in One Basket Overdependence on exotic materials is a risk of any electrification strategy

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27.02.2026 17:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Picky Eaters Could Starve Us All Geoengineering the food supply is tremendously wasteful

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27.02.2026 17:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Robots and Rocketships I've unmasked the Illluminati. You'll never guess who it is.

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27.02.2026 17:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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That Other Island We Just Can't Live Without Puerto Rico struggles in a permanent limbo status as its infrastructure crumbles

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27.02.2026 00:21 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Down Home on the (Solar?) Farm We need a new perfect(ly sustainable) country and western song

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27.02.2026 00:20 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A More Useful Tariff Policy Level the playing field for ecologically responsible producers

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27.02.2026 00:20 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Twilight of the Frauds We've been reduced to stealing crap oil

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The Most Sustainable Resource We Consistently Fail to Utilize American attitudes about education need a dose of resource realism

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27.02.2026 00:19 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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A Modern Greek Tragedy We are not seeing the forest for the trees in today's inane curriculum squabbles

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27.02.2026 00:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Please Don't Connect My Toilet to the Internet and other gripes/warnings about an unnecessarily overconnected existence

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26.02.2026 20:45 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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Resource Realism | Thomas Manuel Ortiz | Substack Energy, Climate, and Natural Resource Commentary from a Mechanical Engineer's Point of View. Click to read Resource Realism, by Thomas Manuel Ortiz, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years ago.

For a mechanical engineer's perspective on natural resource utilization, climate change mitigation, and energy conservation, please visit my Substack, Resource Realism, at thomasmanuelortiz.substack.com

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