The Power Problem
Energy, Empire, and the Case for a New Way Forward

Coming 2027

We are told the energy transition is a technology problem. Build enough solar panels, enough batteries, enough wind turbines, and the rest will follow.

It won't. The tools we need already exist and have for years. What stands between us and a clean energy future isn't engineering. It's power: who holds it, who profits from keeping things as they are, and who is left to pay the cost of that delay.

Drawing on 34 years in the classroom and decades of hands-on work in state energy policy, The Power Problem traces how empire, industry, and politics have shaped, and stalled, the energy choices we're told are purely technical. It's an argument for looking past the engineering and asking the question that actually explains where we are: who benefits, and who pays.

Part history, part policy, part classroom, this book is for anyone who has wondered why the transition feels so slow when the technology has been ready for so long.

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