Underplayed Gems

Switch Energy Project (2012)

Switch Energy Project poster
Original title
SWITCH
Directed by
Harry Lynch
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 38m
Rating
4.8 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A geologist travels the world to explain how society gets its energy now and what the future might hold. The film looks at both fossil fuels and renewable sources without taking a political side.

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What happens

Switch is a documentary film on global energy directed by Harry Lynch, produced and distributed by Arcos Films, and featuring Scott W. Tinker, a geologist and energy researcher who runs the Bureau of Economic Geology, a 200-person research unit of The University of Texas at Austin. and is a professor at the Jackson School of Geosciences. The film is part of a larger energy education and efficiency project, which also includes the Switch Energy Project website, with additional video content and educational programs. The website includes interviews with energy policy analysts such as Ernie Moniz, former under secretary of energy, Steven E. Koonin, deputy executive director of the International Energy Agency, Richard Jones, and physicist Richard A. Muller. The film aims to be a nonpartisan, scientifically based exploration of the energy transition from the traditional energies of coal and oil to future energies. It has been accepted by many environmental groups, government agencies, fossil and renewable energy companies and academic institutions. Switch premiered at the 2012 Environmental Film Festival in Washington DC to positive reviews, then played at 12 other international festivals, most of them environmentally focused, and at 6 international geology conferences, before opening in theaters in New York in September 2012. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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