[Adam Y.]

The educating of the masses properly is up to us in order to create a better future. To say it is the system is to blame yourself, you are a part of the system. You are a part of humanity.

This whole issue of global warming irks me a bit. Scientists can't even figure out what will happen and they give out conflicting opinions. How is anyone going to trust them if they say completely opposite situations is going to happen?

I have a friend who loves to hike (he's president of the outdoors club), he's majoring in MechE for the sole reason to do work on fuel cells and other alternative energies.

Umm... This may sound like a stupid question but wouldn't an electrical or chemical engineer be better suited to do work on fuel cells. A fuel cell has no moving parts. Im confused because Im going into electrical engineering for the same reason as you stated.

Engineers can invent new things all day, but at the end of the day the general public (and their lawyers) will still be averse to unfamiliar and disruptive technologies. If the goal is to produce less pollution, the answer today is simple: go nuclear

The real problem is that the people with great ideas on how to solve problems using technology are distrusted by the people who believe that technology has caused more problems than it has solved. This is probably a symptom of the present poor state of public education.

Umm... Your solution to the problem of less polution probably is the reason why the public trusts scientists less. Im not sure which era this stems from though. It has to be either your parents or your grandparents. Anyway nuclear power was supposed to be the solution to all our problems. Health, energy, and practically anything you could think. Unfortunately everything scientists was telling us was a bunch of hogwash. That's probably where the synisism towards nuclear energy stems from. I could go into it with more detail but it's nine and I need to get two my dorm though there is a whole book on it.