He is currently a guest lecturer at the University of Houston's Bauer School of Business, where he teaches energy project management.
Peter Bradford, a former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who now teaches energy policy at Yale, said that apart from the safety issues, nuclear power was economically problematic.
The Senate energy committee had earlier released internal documents from the company, the Perot Systems Corporation, that appeared to show that it had tried to teach energy traders how to profit from loopholes in a state energy system that the company had helped form.
"You might say it's against my self-interest to say it, but I think that, in the near term, talking about carbon removal is silly," David Keith, the founder of Carbon Engineering, who teaches energy and public policy at Harvard, told me.
This serious game design methodology was developed for an EU project to teach energy efficient knowledge and behaviour to users of public buildings around Europe.
What happened at Enron is "difficult to do without a lot of people at the top knowing about it," says John Baker, who teaches energy business strategy at the Rice School of Management in Houston.
"I ended up going to teach energy saving in schools, but it ended up being sponsored by N-Power, it just made no sense".
Unfortunately, this coherent approach to teaching energy concepts is a recommendation for the future.
Several lines of research have informed recommendations on how to teach energy transfer as a topic central to both biology and physics but challenging to integrate across disciplines.
While this problem may manifest itself most strongly when we talk to biology and chemistry students, it has its roots in the way physics courses teach energy, in the way biology courses talk about chemical energy, and in the disconnected and piecemeal approach to energy typically found in a traditional chemistry sequence.
