Securing future energy will be difficult but doable

Lou Grinzo is the grass roots, where change in America always begins.

A technical writer with a degree in economics, Grinzo has worked for IBM and Microsoft Corp.

Since the 1973 oil crisis, he’s been, in his words, an “energy geek”

Grinzo, 49, and his wife, Liz, moved to Greece from the Southern Tier three years ago. And recently he did his first “Energy Futures” presentation at the town library. He hopes to turn the abridged version into a continuing education course.

“I’m trying to do two things,” he says. “Introduce people to the major trends in energy development and talk about what can be done, and then to give them the references they’ll need to fact-check me.” (There are plenty of references on his “The Cost of Energy” Web site at www.grinzo.com/energy.)

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle